dime
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The 70 family shareholders come back for the company’s annual meeting; the extended family, every five years on the company’s dime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Others will see every last dime go through Uncle Sam.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Hence her latest caper, which begins with a mission to track down a vintage desk and turns on a dime into a heist tied to a cache of gold.
From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026
Instead, he held that the guards had not “consented” to be sued for damages, so Landor could not recover a dime from them.
From Slate ● Jun. 23, 2026
She let the phone book swing back on its chain and fished in her pocket for another dime.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
The most expensive item is Monroe's gold-toned 1950s cylindrical minaudiere purse carrying her tiny hair comb, a tube of lipstick, eight Philip Morris cigarettes and 1940s dimes.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
Traders bundled silver dimes, quarters and half-dollars in face-value increments and launched an arcane—not to mention bulky—asset class.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
At that time in the 1960s, dimes, quarters and half dollars had roughly 0.725 ounces of silver per $1 of coin value.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2025
“Their discs sell like dimes going for a nickel,” Florabel Muir reported in the Los Angeles Mirror in January 1952.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025
Uhmma puts down her change: one quarter, two dimes, five nickels, and too many pennies.
From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na
