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Recent Examples of fiver
Since movie-ticket purchases are not necessary, customers can just grab a bucket and a fiver (plus tax), and Netflix and chill with way too much popcorn for however many people fit on your couch.
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Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 2 Jan. 2026
Evangeline picks up an orange that one of Hank’s hillbillies drops, perhaps because in Alaska during winter that’s like finding a fiver.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 28 Jan. 2024
Now a lot of Main Street is boarded up, even the fancy stores, although there’s no shortage of places to drop a fiver on a cup of coffee.
—Murr Brewster, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Jan. 2022
The loss represented by the odd pocketed fiver is mainly one of trust.
—New York Times, 4 May 2021
Reuters/Simon Dawson Would Brits like a digital fiver?
—John Detrixhe, Quartz, 12 Mar. 2020
When the wellness-retreat trend cemented places like Bali, Tulum, and Goa as destinations for nine-to-fivers desperate for a reset, stylish travelers went searching for the next sunny spot.
—Corina Quinn, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 June 2019
The man grabbed Thibodeaux's cash out of his hand, found a good fiver and threw the rest back at him.
—Anita Chabria, sacbee, 29 May 2018
Unlike most other cities, Birmingham's downtown has no congestion after all the nine-to-fivers clear out.
—Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, 19 Feb. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fiver
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It’s offered in several soft tones, like mauve and camel, as well as plenty of neutrals, leading one five-star reviewer to purchase three different ones.—
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No one gets forgotten or left behind.—
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The school’s founders are accused of siphoning tens of millions of dollars into a private company between 2017 and 2021.—
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The strikes have left tens of thousands of people across the country without power or heating amid freezing winter temperatures.—
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He is joined by six of his players — many more will join by half-time, arriving in ones and twos, shuffling over the teal concrete — and by assorted members of the Xavier clan, all wearing colourful training kit.—
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Like the ones will go against the ones, ones will go against the twos, so everybody basically gets to see everybody on the roster at some point on the field.—
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That’s just me, though, and if an American citizen wants to put a tenner on the Lakers’ likelihood to hire on even more geriatric former stars, then feel free.—
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Putting down an odd number, such as $10.11 instead of just a tenner, in the closing hours is her lucky tip for beating the masses.—
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The five who have done it are Jamal Crawford, LeBron James, Wilt Chamberlain, Bernard King and Moses Malone.—
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Kit Kats and Snickers round out the top five, taking fourth and fifth place respectively.—
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The drugs could be worth tens of thousands of dollars on the street.—
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Schroder was banking on bigger offers on the free agent market, but the decision ultimately cost him millions of dollars.—
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Beyond the gate are hundreds of white crosses, marking the graves of Parchman’s long-dead prisoners.—
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Jobs and community investment Microsoft said new data centers create thousands of construction jobs and hundreds of long term operational roles.—
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For the record, the Aztec Room & Patio can accommodate some 200 visitors, and yes, that 19-foot ceiling is genuine 18-karat--nary a pre-Depression sawbuck was spared when constructing this masterpiece.—
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In most cases, $10 above the single-Mac price gets you three licenses; another sawbuck raises that to five.—
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“Fiver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fiver. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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