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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.
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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
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
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During his first term, former President Barack Obama struck a deal with Congress: if Senate Republicans backed the New START arms control treaty with Russia, Obama would support investing billions of dollars to modernize the country’s nuclear weapons.—
Davis Winkie,
USA Today,
19 May 2025
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Final Thoughts The 2025 Motorola Razr captures the essence of the company’s flip phone experience for hundreds of dollars less than competing models.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
18 May 2025
Noun
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No one pays $300 a night to get put up in a hotel. ...—
Kristen Jordan Shamus,
USA Today,
19 May 2025
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Since Zito became general manager of the Panthers four seasons ago, no one in any sport has run a better organization.—
Dave Hyde,
Sun Sentinel,
19 May 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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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
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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
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By cramming together tens of thousands of chickens, corporations have created the perfect conditions to supercharge this recent bird flu outbreak, and which will inevitably do so again.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 May 2025
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Thousands — sometimes tens of thousands — tune in to the cam, which has been in place since 2015.—
Amy Hubbard,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2025
Noun
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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
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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
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That’s because the Heat shot just 16 of 42 (38.1 percent) on two-point shots Saturday after shooting 26 of 36 (72.2 percent) on twos in Game 2.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
26 Apr. 2025
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Queen, the conference’s Freshman of the Year and first-team selection, drained 2 of 4 3-pointers — doubling his season total — and connected on a few more long twos.—
Edward Lee,
Baltimore Sun,
16 Mar. 2025
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Nobody from the state shows up at Our Holy Mother of the Perpetual Deficit with a large canvas bag of cash.—
Joe Soucheray,
Twin Cities,
10 May 2025
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The cash is transferred in minutes, though this depends on your bank.—
Julian Chokkattu,
Wired News,
10 May 2025
Cite this Entry
“C-note.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/C-note. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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