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checkbooks

  • plural
    of checkbook.
    checkbook
    noun
    a book containing blank checks or orders on a bank.

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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

It dies on social media and in the checkbooks of billionaires.

From Salon Dec. 8, 2024

Harbaugh knows that to win with the Chargers, his owners will have to keep their checkbooks open.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 1, 2024

And he was savvy enough to understand that the more attention he got from the news media, the easier it would be to coax corporations to open their checkbooks.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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