or shekelim
shē-ˈkā-lim
or sheqalim
she-ˈkä-lim
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Examples of shekel in a Sentence
NBC News, 8 Jan. 2024
Immediately after Monday’s vote, the Tel Aviv Stock Market dropped and the shekel plummeted against the dollar.
—Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 25 July 2023
The conflict is expected to cost Israel around 255 billion shekels ($70.3 billion) by the end of 2025, equivalent to around 13% of GDP, according to the Bank of Israel.
—Hanna Ziady, CNN, 19 Feb. 2024
At makeshift street stalls, older children working as hawkers sell individual diapers for 3-5 shekels ($1 to $1.50) or entire packs of 50 for up to 200 shekels ($55).
—Wafaa Shurafa, Quartz, 16 Feb. 2024
The deal is part of a roughly 18.5% stake sale to foreign and local investors for 353 million shekels ($95 million), meaning the couple would have paid $25 million, according to calculations by Bloomberg.
—Galit Altstein, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
The Israeli shekel weakened slightly after the data release to trade at around 3.62 to the US dollar.
—Hanna Ziady, CNN, 19 Feb. 2024
Foreign investments were pulled; the shekel depreciated.
—Ruth Margalit, New York Times, 27 Sep. 2023
In currency markets, the shekel weakened Monday, trading down 0.3% at 3.988 per US dollar.
—Laura He, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
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Hebrew sheqel
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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