as in cash
something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment
trying to scrape up the kale to buy more dope
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Recent Examples of kale
There are six bowl bases to choose from, with kale and avocado salad and garlic rosemary roasted potatoes, but the jollof rice quickly emerged as the favorite.
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Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
Beans, beets, cucumbers, leafy greens including kale, chard, arugula and lettuces, peas, radishes, turnips, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower.
—Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 20 Apr. 2026
Hearty kale and buttery salmon team up for a heart-healthy and delicious supper.
—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 18 Apr. 2026
Lettuces include spinach, kale, romaine, watercress, and arugula.
—Amy Brownstein, Verywell Health, 15 Apr. 2026
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Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
Beans, beets, cucumbers, leafy greens including kale, chard, arugula and lettuces, peas, radishes, turnips, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower.
—Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 20 Apr. 2026
Hearty kale and buttery salmon team up for a heart-healthy and delicious supper.
—Josh Miller, Southern Living, 18 Apr. 2026
Lettuces include spinach, kale, romaine, watercress, and arugula.
—Amy Brownstein, Verywell Health, 15 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kale
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Sun Pharma plans to fund the acquisition through a mix of internal cash and financing from banks.—
Baiju Kalesh,
Bloomberg,
27 Apr. 2026
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The irregular flow of cash will distort their financial reports and could deepen mistrust that the county has adequate guardrails to properly account for where taxpayers’ money is ending up.—
A.D. Quig,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Apr. 2026
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Trump has vowed to spend his own money to pay for the ballroom, but the project has drawn criticism for its massive size.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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Opponents of Johnson’s added into the budget an expectation that the city would earn $6 million from the technology, though Johnson’s administration argued the city could not responsibly count on the money.—
Jake Sheridan,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2026
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Both metals are accessible through physical bars and coins, ETFs, mining stocks or futures contracts.—
Sharon Wu,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2026
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Oliver needed to liquidate $200,000 from his stock and bond portfolio, convert it to cash and use it to buy gold coins.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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Those who join now can use the code PCAMER26 by December 31, 2026, to earn up to 4,000 bonus Avios (Qatar Airways’s rewards currency) to use on upcoming flights, upgrades, and extra baggage allowances.—
Jamie Spain,
Condé Nast Traveler,
28 Apr. 2026
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The courts in the past have held — and usually not framed in terms of DEI policies; this was prior to that term gaining currency — but courts have been skeptical about giving the FCC authority over Equal Employment Opportunity policies as a basis for license decisions.—
Josef Adalian,
Vulture,
28 Apr. 2026
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The dough must be made with 00 flour — a finely ground wheat flour — plus natural or brewer’s yeast, salt and water.—
The Sacramento Bee staff,
Sacbee.com,
25 Apr. 2026
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The dough of the ravioli has a higher egg content, in a style that AJ picked up in Alba, Italy.—
Timothy DePeugh,
Charlotte Observer,
24 Apr. 2026
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Pepsi faced bogus charges for making volume deals that let families buy soda 12-packs for a few bucks — not at boutique pricing of a dollar per can.—
Stephen Moore,
Boston Herald,
24 Apr. 2026
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These bucks need to wait in line.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
22 Apr. 2026
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That meant Stop Sale Orders on sour cream (49 degrees); cabbage (51); sausage (53) and uncooked shell eggs (69 degrees).—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
28 Apr. 2026
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Green cabbage tends to be more common for fermenting, a process by which microorganisms (bacteria, yeast, or fungi) break down sugars and starches in food, producing acids, gases, or alcohol as byproducts.—
Lauren Panoff,
Verywell Health,
24 Apr. 2026
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Eating ultraprocessed pancakes for breakfast, chips with lunch, a bag of cookies for a snack and a pizza for dinner could quickly add up.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
29 Apr. 2026
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New orders for the specialized and embedded chips that NXP and its peers make—not to be confused with the high-performance AI silicon that gets all the news headlines—are finally rising after a long slump going all the way back to the COVID-19 pandemic.—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Kale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kale. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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