make a buck

idiom

: to earn money
I am just working hard, trying to make a buck.

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Cynical readers might right away be bellowing that this is going to incentivize the AI makers to convince users to increase their thinking times, perhaps just to make a buck. — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025 Check it out: The Switchback gave Holmes a way to make a buck while prototyping the larger public transit system, and testing it at high speeds. — New Atlas, 15 Jan. 2025 Ditto for tedious paralegal tasks, or data entry, or even coding, or anything that any of the rest of us do to make a buck. — John Werner, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2024 Zoom in: Pecora's aspirations grew out of needing a quick way to make a buck to buy a new, expensive mountain bike, per Time. — Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 16 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for make a buck

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