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ledger

[lej-er] / ˈlɛdʒ ɛr /
NOUN
account book
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“I saw that we had made, for a couple years, a good amount of money, and then I looked at the bottom of the ledger, and we’re in the red,” the 76-year-old says.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

On the other side of the ledger, what work does he have to show on behalf of the American people?

From Slate Jul. 9, 2026

The robot cops represent the other side of the ledger: China’s institutional ambition.

From MarketWatch Jun. 22, 2026

Some of the SpaceX investors on Kahlon’s ledger are easy to identify: the Indian politician Abhishek Singhvi; Betsy DeVos, the former U.S. secretary of education; a British Virgin Islands company owned by Indonesian billionaires.

From Salon Jun. 19, 2026

He sprinkled sand on the fresh ink, blew it off, and closed the ledger.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

But the bottom lines on the accounting ledgers darken the view considerably.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Myriad ledgers record artworks and exhibitions alongside the income that sustained Saar and her then-young daughters — Alison, Lezley and Tracye — after her 1970 divorce from Richard Saar.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 15, 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

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

From Barron's Mar. 17, 2026

“The moral of the story is that things are a mess in here. We effectively ‘lost’ almost two hundred thousand books when Tolem burned the Larkin ledgers.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss




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