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Donors need to be seen as more than just a checkbook.
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Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Don’t expect to just open your checkbook, scrawl your John Hancock, and then jump behind the bar and start running the place.
—Idaho Statesman, 8 July 2025
The custodian of my IRA sent me a checkbook to use to make QCD contributions.
—Elliot Raphaelson, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2025
Great powers that had relied on gunboat diplomacy to impose their will, meanwhile, had to substitute checkbook diplomacy.
—Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
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Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Don’t expect to just open your checkbook, scrawl your John Hancock, and then jump behind the bar and start running the place.
—Idaho Statesman, 8 July 2025
The custodian of my IRA sent me a checkbook to use to make QCD contributions.
—Elliot Raphaelson, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2025
Great powers that had relied on gunboat diplomacy to impose their will, meanwhile, had to substitute checkbook diplomacy.
—Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2025
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“Checkbook.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/checkbook. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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checkbook
noun
check·book
ˈchek-ˌbu̇k 
: a book of blank bank checks
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