How to Use greenback in a Sentence

greenback

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  • The last time the greenback was on the skids like this was 2017.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 6 Dec. 2020
  • In the past three months, the yuan has lost about 7% of its value against the greenback.
    — Laura He, CNN, 13 May 2022
  • The exact cause of the greenback's new-year gains wasn't clear.
    — Caitlin Ostroff, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Last week, the yen surged nearly 5% against the greenback.
    — Laura He, CNN, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Indeed, the Hong Kong dollar is just a clone of the greenback.
    — Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Those dollars cost more when the greenback strengthens —and as the debt mounts so do the costs.
    — Rafael Nam, NPR, 11 June 2024
  • Though the greenback—up around 17% against the euro this year and 26% compared with.
    — Mitchell Martin, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • And given that the dollar has been en fuego for the past decade, the greenback’s drop could very well be swift.
    — Brett Owens, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The buck is flat, but dollar shorts cannot be happy with the greenback's run over the past month.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 30 June 2021
  • In the past 18 months, the Europe’s fallen almost 20% against the greenback.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • But a stronger greenback also tends to weigh on gold prices.
    — Anneken Tappe, CNN, 9 July 2019
  • A year earlier in 1983, the Hong Kong dollar had been pegged to the greenback.
    — Fortune, 6 Aug. 2019
  • The euro is up 9% against the greenback since April as dollar-shorts build up.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2020
  • The greenback had soared in 2022 to its highest in around two decades, but slipped a little last year.
    — Rafael Nam, NPR, 11 June 2024
  • The loonie weakened against the greenback and Canada’s two-year and 10-year bonds rallied for a fifth straight day.
    — Shelly Hagan, Bloomberg.com, 29 Apr. 2020
  • The greenback was little changed after two days of gains.
    — Time, 6 Feb. 2018
  • As a result, the value of the yen soared against the dollar, erasing all the gains the greenback had made this entire year.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The greenback is off 10% since March, a stunning collapse.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2020
  • But there are early signs of momentum for a brave new world for the greenback.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2021
  • The Hong Kong dollar climbed into the stronger half of its trading band against the greenback for the first time since July.
    — Fortune, 12 Dec. 2019
  • That required Beijing to intervene to keep the yuan in line with the dollar as the greenback rose over the past two years.
    — Joe McDonald, The Seattle Times, 7 June 2017
  • In theory, a Biden win could reduce the value of the greenback even more.
    — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 6 Oct. 2020
  • The greenback is up less than 1% this year against a basket of currencies.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 15 July 2019
  • The common currency has weakened about 4% against the greenback over the past 12 months.
    — Katherine Greifeld / Bloomberg, Time, 11 June 2019
  • The dollar edged lower as CFTC data showed hedge funds are the most bearish on the greenback in five years.
    — Andreea Papuc, Bloomberg.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • The greenback rose 5% against a basket of peers tracked by The Wall Street Journal in the second quarter, its first gain in more than a year.
    — Chelsey Dulaney, WSJ, 9 July 2018
  • The question of how much the United States could use the greenback to pressure China is not a new one, either.
    — Laura He, CNN, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Query for Wapo, this author and editors...... ...what color is on the back of a greenback....?...
    — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Second, gold is often seen as a hedge against inflation, prompting investors to turn to it when the greenback falters.
    — Max Baecker, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024
  • But Trump’s threat appears to be in response to China, Russia and other countries that have made noise about finding an alternative to the greenback.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 12 Sep. 2024

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