dime
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Hence her latest caper, which begins with a mission to track down a vintage desk and turns on a dime into a heist tied to a cache of gold.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
And yet you can’t bring yourself to spend a dime of it.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
Instead, he held that the guards had not “consented” to be sued for damages, so Landor could not recover a dime from them.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026
Thousands who flew into Sin City on the insurer’s dime were treated to a Pink concert, a Jimmy Fallon-led singalong and selfies with the “Jake from State Farm” actor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
“One dime for the Winter Help program,” they shouted as they went door-to-door, furiously rattling their tin cans.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
The most expensive item is Monroe's gold-toned 1950s cylindrical minaudiere purse carrying her tiny hair comb, a tube of lipstick, eight Philip Morris cigarettes and 1940s dimes.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
The 1965 Coinage Act ended the use of silver in dimes and quarters and cut the amount in 50-cent pieces to 40% from 90%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
The bags contain dimes, quarters and half dollars.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025
It’s beneficial, and also really, really inexpensive; per capita, adding fluoride to the water can cost on the order of dimes each year.
From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2025
All of the Rommelys were insured by the same company and the same agent collected the nickels and dimes from each of the sisters weekly.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
