fiat

Example Sentences

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“It improves reliability and efficiency for moving fiat deposits in and out of digital-asset markets,” said Arjun Sethi, co-chief executive of Kraken.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

If the justice were genuinely worried about this possibility, one would not expect him to erase a key safeguard against it by judicial fiat.

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2026

Wars are financed by borrowing and printing money which devalues debt and fiat currency.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 16, 2026

In this debt-currency debasement period, once again gold has been strong relative to major fiat currencies, most of which have debt problems.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

The ancient, giant mahogany trees, all the trees, the game, everything of the forest was being destroyed, and the land was forced to lie fiat, he said, and bare as the palm of his hand.

From "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker