pocketbook

All of it, unfortunately, has been passed down to your pocketbook in one form or another.

From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026

As in prior years, the pollsters noted, each of the voters’ priority issues for elected officials to address — from cost of living to healthcare to housing — “are all driven by pocketbook concerns.”

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2026

Officials said they would use this additional fiscal firepower on measures to raise the country’s standard of living, and help households deal with pocketbook strains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

With midterm elections coming in November, pocketbook subjects like the cost of groceries and utilities appear poised to grab a bigger share of voters’ attention — and ire.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 29, 2025

I fumbled in my pocketbook for the gilt compact with the mascara and the mascara brush and the eyeshadow and the three lipsticks and the side mirror.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

Metro just can’t open our pocketbooks and throw money at the agency,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

“With ⁠a resurgence in fuel prices and trade tensions, consumers anticipate greater pressures on their pocketbooks to come,” Joanne ⁠Hsu, the director of the Surveys of Consumers, said.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

When the price of diesel rises, it doesn’t show up immediately in consumers’ pocketbooks, Chowdhury said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

So the impact of the debt "finds its way to the pocketbooks of people one way or another," says MacGuineas.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Most grandmothers of her species carry a coffee-table-sized photo album in their tote-bag-sized pocketbooks.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg