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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
Noun
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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
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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
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No one was exactly eager to hop back into the weight room, meeting room and practice field when the offseason program began that April.—
Matt Barrows,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
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No one is bigger than anyone else in the dressing room.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
30 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
Noun
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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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Battles have continued along the roughly 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) front line, where tens of thousands of soldiers have been killed, and neither country has relented in its deep strikes.—
SAMYA KULLAB,
Chicago Tribune,
25 May 2025
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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
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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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Sometimes there are individual wins, sometimes a group wins, occasionally there are top twos.—
Barry Levitt,
Vulture,
12 May 2025
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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
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In the next few years, expect to see even more people quietly stacking cash from their living rooms, offering hyper-specific products and services and never worrying about beating the algorithm.—
King Holder,
Rolling Stone,
22 May 2025
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Having to pay cash for everything up front has stifled businesses’ ability to grow.—
Taylor Luck,
Christian Science Monitor,
21 May 2025
Cite this Entry
“C-note.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/C-note. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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