C-note

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Recent Examples of C-note In those days, Mike Schmidt had the biggest contract at $2.1 million while rookies were paid $60,000, so a C-note from all your teammates was big money. Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 16 May 2025 The official pocketed the 25 C-notes and wrote out the permit. Jack O’Connor, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2024 Contrast doesn't get much better than that short of a pricey OLED panel, a noteworthy achievement for a monitor that costs less than a C-note. PCMAG, 31 May 2024 There are plenty of great options to be had for below a C-note. Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 30 May 2024 Such modules get a maker close to a complete class-D amp for about a C-note or less (sometimes substantially less). IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2018 Kopitar, Bergeron, and Pavelski are the only three active NHLers to be over 1,000 for a career but never with a C-note on their résumé. Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for C-note
Noun
  • Grid operators must also pay the renewable energy provider a downward dispatch fee that can cost thousands of dollars per megawatt per hour.
    Renny Vandewege, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
  • But government economists have for years calculated that such standards save Americans hundreds of dollars a year in lower water and power bills.
    Coral Davenport, New York Times, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • These decisions suggest an effort to suppress all but the most overt nationalistic efforts from American artists, a fool’s errand given the outspoken nature of the creative community, and one that is not unfamiliar around the globe.
    Eric Kohn, HollywoodReporter, 30 May 2025
  • Each of these is a live performance, and each one is a chance to iterate.
    Scott Hutcheson, Forbes.com, 30 May 2025
Noun
  • In most cases, $10 above the single-Mac price gets you three licenses; another sawbuck raises that to five.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 15 Apr. 2025
  • But try that nowadays and the guy will laugh derisively, then pick up your sawbuck between his thumb and index finger, like a piece of filth, and hand it back to you.
    Jack Handey, The New Yorker, 5 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • The prevalence of disability rises from less than 20% to nearly 40% between our twenties and our sixties Our fifties are a tipping point.
    Nancy Doyle, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • By her early fifties Gay was twice divorced, child-free and working as a program manager at FedEx in Memphis.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 23 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Scores of other pending lawsuits represent potentially tens of millions more in liability exposure.
    Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2025
  • Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, tens of thousands of large bugs have descended on Great Smoky Mountains National Park along the North Carolina-Tennessee border, according to the National Park Service.
    Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Sometimes there are individual wins, sometimes a group wins, occasionally there are top twos.
    Barry Levitt, Vulture, 12 May 2025
  • People came in twos and threes to the intersection, all asking what had happened in English and Spanish.
    Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2025
Noun
  • Arrive early, bring cash and a cart, dress for the heat, and don’t skip any rows—treasures can turn up anywhere.
    Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 3 June 2025
  • The higher interest rates investors demand to loan the government money leave less money for running a country, increase interest rates for consumers and businesses and generally leave a country with fewer options to raise cash.
    John Towfighi, CNN Money, 3 June 2025

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“C-note.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/C-note. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.

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