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  • noun Plural form of token.

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Examples

  • Don't get me wrong: there were the Gloria Steinems and the Camille Paglias (I love that she's so passé now; she wasn 't then), but they were considered either tokens from the margin, or special interest leaders.

    Betraying Hillary 2008

  • Don't get me wrong: there were the Gloria Steinems and the Camille Paglias (I love that she's so passé now; she wasn 't then), but they were considered either tokens from the margin, or special interest leaders.

    SeeLight: 2008

  • The one where you send tokens down a moving chute to try to dislodge more tokens from a shelf.

    NECON and Redemption : Bev Vincent 2008

  • Using his dweeby-but-easily-manipulated hench-French, the Alchemist collects his virgin tokens and kills them in nasty ways in order to use their blood to help make his magical mask.

    Dark Portals: The Chronicles of Vidocq moriarty6 2007

  • But that's ok because I think getting the Divide CP Assault and Defense tokens is also going to take awhile.

    NaBloPoMo -- A post for every day in November about Tabula Rasa trinfaneb 2007

  • In great distress of mind, he arranged that certain tokens should inform him of the child's condition.

    Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 Maud Howe Elliott 1915

  • When opened and laid before an audience, it is seen to contain "tokens" -- such as a leopard's paw, a child's hair, a necklet, or a dried fish -- sewn firmly to the meshes of the net.

    Poems: New and Old Henry John Newbolt 1900

  • Resources will be traded in the form of "tokens" -- one token will represent one unit of resources, and developer Monte Cristo currently intends to let the resource market regulate itself, rather then get too involved in the player economy.

    GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features 2009

  • Now, since bilsang can be played with any kind of token — coins, medals, pebbles — we can infer that the tokens are not color specific, do not have markings on one side, etc ... and since remembering the position of your own pieces among twenty identical tokens is probably too much for the average gamer, this seems to suggest that bilsang is not a game like chess or checkers where each side plays only their own army.

    Archive 2006-02-01 Lou Anders 2006

  • The most common of all the tokens is the "token gay".

    Archive 2009-12-01 Glenn Dunks 2009

  • In terms that were more fitting for a multiplayer video game than any sort of functional financial market, he explained that “a couple months ago, the meta shifted into ‘LARP tokens’, tokens where the team will go to extreme lengths to convince buyers that they’re connected to famous celebrities/musicians/larger tokens.”

    TechScape: They used my identity to flog a doomed cryptocurrency – and then things got weird Alex Hern 2022

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