How to Use currency in a Sentence

currency

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  • The word has not yet won widespread currency.
  • Furs were once traded as currency.
  • A new currency has been introduced in the foreign exchange market.
  • I'm not sure about the accuracy and currency of their information.
  • They were paid in U.S. currency.
  • The job of rebuilding trust in the currency now falls to Erkan.
    — Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 9 June 2023
  • The Israeli currency has tumbled close to 4% in the past 10 days.
    — Laura He, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Sometimes, it was even used as currency in the slave trade.
    — Raksha Vasudevan, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 May 2023
  • This is where the trust in the digital currency begins to get tricky.
    — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The currency had been hosted at Binance, which handed it to the FBI.
    — Michael Laris, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
  • And yet the yuan still lags as a major global currency.
    — Tuugi Chuluun, The Conversation, 1 June 2023
  • The value of bitcoin ETFs is tethered to the price of their namesake currency.
    — Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Inflation is a decline in the measure that is the currency.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 7 May 2023
  • This isn’t to say we’ll never be dethroned as the world’s reserve currency.
    — The Enquirer, 10 Jan. 2024
  • In a business where trust is the coin of the realm, McCarthy holds no currency — and that cost him among Republicans as well.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Japan is already enjoying a surge in tourist arrivals, due to the weak currency.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The prize money was raised by 1 million kronor this year because of the plunging value of the Swedish currency.
    — TIME, 2 Oct. 2023
  • But his effigy has yet to appear on the currency of countries that recognize him as the head of state.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 5 May 2023
  • In a lot of those economies, people are already taking a lot of actions to swap out their home currency for dollars.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Crypto, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The local currency lost more than half its value to the US dollar in June, and the country owes billions of dollars in debt arrears.
    — Nimi Princewill, CNN, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Headline inflation rose to 29.7% year-over-year in December owing to tax hikes and a sharp fall in the currency.
    — TIME, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Boosting the use of member states’ local currencies is also on the agenda.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Joseph Otting, a former comptroller of the currency, will become the bank’s CEO.
    — Stan Choe, Fortune, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The country issued a new currency and inflation was in freefall.
    — Marcelo Rochabrun, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2023
  • Michael Hsu, the acting comptroller of the currency, said in an interview.
    — Paige Smith, Fortune, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Danske still expects the Riksbank to raise rates further as the Swedish currency remains weak and inflation hasn’t slowed as much as the central bank would have liked to see.
    — Niclas Rolander, Fortune, 14 June 2023
  • The novel endures thanks to its keen understanding that many people in this town see movies as a metaphor, a proxy for other forms of currency: the tax break, the blind item, the call sheet, the high horse.
    — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
  • And in a profession where information is king and currency, that was the scariest part.
    — Erica Gonzales, ELLE, 2 June 2023
  • The menu is a series of running jokes (Dead Chicken and Cheeseburger with Cheese) and the place is wallpapered with gags, business cards and currency.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Thanks mainly to sanctions, Iran’s currency has lost more than 90% of its value against the dollar over the past decade, and price inflation remains above 40%.
    — Ian Bremmer, Time, 23 June 2023

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