penny
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Yeah, you talked about your grandfather being like, “I was so proud I never took a penny from the government.”
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026
Show up to a group trip prepared to swallow a few expenses here and there, instead of holding everyone to the penny.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
Killing the penny saves about $56 million a year.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Asked whether Benn had still been worth the money, White bluntly said: "Every penny of it."
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Fabyan presented them with endless work that had to be finished up, but he paid them not a penny more than usual.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
The stock is trading at a lowly multiple, Berenberg says, as it increases its target price to 390 pence from 360 pence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
RBC has an outperform rating on the stock and a 660 pence price target.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
RBC maintains its sector perform recommendation and 335 pence price target on the stock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Shares are up 3.8% to 988.50 pence, though they are down 22% year to date.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
There was enough for the six mats and enough each for a penny for rice and beyond that he had three pence left.
From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck
Stock your employer put in 25 years ago may have cost pennies against today’s price.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026
"I had worked out how much I would have owed in old pennies as a couple of hundred pounds," he explained.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
That changed more recently as the value of emptying office buildings plummeted, enabling developers to acquire these towers for pennies on the dollar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
The other explanation is it’s a cash grab made for pennies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
They probably had a stack of flat pennies somewhere in the company-store offices, collected over the decades.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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