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ledger

[lej-er] / ˈlɛdʒ ɛr /
NOUN
account book
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The thing that once arrived as part of the welcome now joins the same mental ledger as everything else: Drinks?

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

The task of determining which expenses fall on what side of the ledger would belong to the state attorney general.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The Houston Astros were leading in the AL West with a ledger of 77-76, an utterly underwhelming showing that is barely above the .500 threshold.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

They salvaged a point, or three, on other days, but they were on the wrong side of the ledger on so many occasions.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

When Billy Pilgrim’s name was inscribed in the ledger of the prison camp, he was given a number, too, and an iron dogtag in which that number was stamped.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

Tokenization, or the trading of traditional assets on digital ledgers known as the blockchain, has been gaining momentum on Wall Street.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Dr Helen Paul, an economic historian at the University of Southampton, was one of the experts brought in to decipher 18th Century ledgers.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

During her morning news conference, she seemed to mock some of the U.S. evidence, including hand-written ledgers allegedly denoting payoffs to Mexican politicians.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026

BVNK’s infrastructure bridges fiat currency with stablecoins, which are dollar-pegged tokens traded on blockchain ledgers.

From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026

I hurried down the street to the bookseller one wintry afternoon, bought a whole new set of ledgers, and started in to impose method on madness.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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