legal tender
Example Sentences
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Utah, a state with a long mining legacy, was the first to reaffirm gold and silver as legal tender in 2011.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
Last year, the country welcomed a record 3.9 million tourists, including cryptocurrency evangelists drawn by Bukele’s short-lived experiment in making Bitcoin legal tender.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2025
"I'll accept any legal tender - I'm not going to tell people how to pay for their goods," she added.
From BBC ● May 2, 2025
Suddenly I realized — a shock to the system! — you needed legal tender in order to live.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2025
Instead of continuing the argument about how they would cop, they began to fantasize about what the gold could buy when it became legal tender.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
