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• Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, cut a check for $250.
  — cleveland, 16 Apr. 2021
• The tenant cut a check to Smith on Jan. 30 for her deposit and first month’s rent.
  — John Simerman, NOLA.com, 19 Sep. 2020
• The next day the public office run by Greenberg cut a check for that amount to Greenberg’s private company.
  — Martin E. Comas, orlandosentinel.com, 15 Aug. 2020
• But Murdaugh allegedly cut a check in 2012 made payable to Palmetto State Bank, and the man’s family never saw any of the funds.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2022
• Two months later, Blazel cut a check for Gableman’s expenses.
  — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2022
• The tax preparer wants a refund deposited into one of her accounts and then plans to cut a check and send the taxpayers their refund.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2021
• Regardless, Thiel easily could have written a $15 million check for pro-Masters ads, and Trump could have lent him his email list or cut a check.
  — The Editors, National Review, 14 Nov. 2022
• Randolph said taxing authorities who levied taxes on the theme parks won’t have to cut a check out of their budgets to repay Disney.
  — Stephen Hudak, orlandosentinel.com, 23 July 2021
• The city has yet to cut a check from the $4.1 million set aside for nonprofits focused on gun violence prevention and healing, and only plans to dole out about 5% of that money by July 1.
  — oregonlive, 28 Apr. 2021
• Bethune, like many north Minneapolis schools, lacks a formal Parent Teacher Association that could cut a check for such items.
  — Mara Klecker, Star Tribune, 28 June 2021
• Select Medical cut a check of about $5 million — a rounding error for a conglomerate that generates more than $6 billion of revenue every year.
  — Bob Herman and Casey Ross, STAT, 13 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024