How to Use currency in a Sentence

currency

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  • A new currency has been introduced in the foreign exchange market.
  • I'm not sure about the accuracy and currency of their information.
  • Like many Greek poleis, the city minted its own currency.
    — Joshua Hammer, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 May 2024
  • To get the best exchange rate, check your local branch to exchange foreign currency.
    — Janelle Holland, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2024
  • Completing stages rewards you with another currency that is used to upgrade each unit type.
    — Diego Argüello, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2024
  • English is the official language, and the currency is the U.S. dollar.
    — Pat Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 19 May 2024
  • Putin wants access to Chinese financial markets and to use the Chinese yuan currency to boost Russian trade.
    — Charlie Campbell, TIME, 17 May 2024
  • Miners were usually not paid in U.S. currency but in company scrip, which could only be redeemed at the company store.
    — Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 9 May 2024
  • Consider exchanging currency before your trip or using credit cards with low foreign transaction fees to avoid unfavorable exchange rates and fees.
    — Ebony Flake, Essence, 16 May 2024
  • The lira’s real effective exchange rate, a measure of its value against foreign currencies, is at its highest level since late 2021.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune Europe, 22 July 2024
  • But the real bonanza came when Renaissance plunged into equities, a much larger market than currencies and commodities.
    — Jonathan Kandell, New York Times, 10 May 2024
  • But grievance remains the dominant currency of American politics — the conviction that one side has been victimized by the other.
    — Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Washington Post, 14 July 2024
  • 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
  • This isn’t to say we’ll never be dethroned as the world’s reserve currency.
    — The Enquirer, 12 June 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
  • On the field, the last-place Angels are selling hope and faith, the currency of another bummer summer.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2024
  • 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

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