checkbook
Americannoun
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checkbooks
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Origin of checkbook
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Decades before plastic became the default currency at the cash register and Venmo became a verb, pulling out a paper checkbook to pay for weekly groceries was a standard routine in American life.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
Gould dealt with the legal question by going to Albany with a checkbook.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
“They need to pay for it by opening up their checkbook and changing the program to ensure that there are parental controls and that we are not endangering our kids.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
He will rely on recently disclosed Microsoft emails from January 2018 to demonstrate that the tech giant only opened its checkbook once a profit appeared possible.
From Barron's ● May 11, 2026
She puts the checkbook down and cups her chin with one hand; the other hand punches numbers into a calculator.
From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na
One imagines irritated Michigan Wolverines burning checkbooks and disavowing money-market accounts as they drink their spritzes at Ann Arbor tailgates—but inside Columbus, this is like getting to sponsor religion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
It did it with patience, port contracts and checkbooks, while Americans were busy elsewhere.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 10, 2026
On top of the table her purse flopped open and from its mouth spilled curling checkbooks, loose cash, half a muffin in a napkin and bottles of Chinese herbs.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2025
It dies on social media and in the checkbooks of billionaires.
From Salon ● Dec. 8, 2024
As inflation ate away at their modest government pensions, Elizebeth spent long hours going over their checkbooks, bank records, and tax forms.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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