How to Use hard currency in a Sentence

hard currency

noun
  • Experts long suspected that Cuba was reselling some of the oil from Venezuela for hard currency.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The loss of those supplies — and the hard currency Havana earned by reselling part of them — has further squeezed an already fragile economy.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 24 Jan. 2026
  • With depleting foreign exchange reserves, some businesses have been forced to close as entrepreneurs and farmers turn to the black market in search of hard currency.
    — Charles Pensulo, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • By hard currency, Dalio is referring to assets outside the financial system.
    — Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Instead, the foreign firms pay the salaries in hard currency to government employment agencies— which pocket the money and pay the Cuban workers in pesos.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 23 Dec. 2025
  • The conglomerate, which is believed to keep most of its hard currency in its own financial institutions or bank accounts abroad, keeps its accounting books out of reach of government auditors.
    — Nora Gamez Torres, Miami Herald, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The bolivar’s plunge can be partially explained by the US military’s show of force, as nervous Venezuelans seek to purchase hard currency as a hedge against an uncertain future.
    — Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Money, 11 Nov. 2025
  • According to a blog published by the Council on Foreign Relations, the ins and outs of the crisis are complicated, but undergirding it all is the fact that the country is running out of hard currency.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
  • According to a blog published by the Council on Foreign Relations, the ins and outs of the crisis are complicated, but undergirding it all is the fact that the country is running out of hard currency.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The Justice Department has sought to prosecute middlemen involved in corruption schemes linked to Venezuela’s energy sector, which is one of the country’s few remaining sources of hard currency.
    — Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Energy prices have also fallen, adding risk to export prospects for the Vaca Muerta shale field—one of Argentina’s few hopes for escaping chronic hard currency shortages that trigger balance-of-payments crises.
    — Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Tourism, a major source of hard currency for the country, remains far below pre-pandemic levels; analyses using official Cuban data show that tourist arrivals in 2025 were less than half the number in 2019.
    — Ricardo Torres, Time, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Agricultural exporters including Argentina and Uruguay could be boosted as well as the price of foodstuffs increase globally, while investment in Latin America could further drive a hard currency windfall.
    — Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Local and regional African credit rating agencies argue that their global counterparts overweight hard currency constraints and external shocks while underestimating domestic resilience and informal economic activity.
    — Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 12 Jan. 2026

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