buck
Example Sentences
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Hakim -- not his real name -- travelled south from the Paris region at the end of 2020 when he was 15 thinking to make a fast buck, but things quickly went wrong.
From Barron's
Charles bucked this trend by being unusually open about his battle with the disease, using it as a platform to raise awareness about cancer.
If the market bucks the downward pressure of that selling, as it did after the Fed’s midweek meeting, it therefore has nothing to do with Santa.
From MarketWatch
He and his staff determined that allocating big bucks to a 31-year-old first baseman was a bad investment.
So I rented a house from this guy — paid a thousand bucks a month.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.