a shade

idiom

: a bit : a little
He is just a shade taller than his brother.

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Hargitay points to blooms a shade of pink that her mother — who famously lived in the Pink Palace, a Mediterranean-style L.A. mansion — would surely appreciate. Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025 Mirabella had famously repainted former editor Diana Vreeland’s red office a shade of beige, which became a metaphor for her reputation as being too unadventurous. Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 27 June 2025 The son of 13-year NBA guard Jason Richardson — and who spent parts of the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons with Orlando — Jase is a smaller guard, at a shade under 6-1 and 178 pounds. Andrew Greif, NBC news, 26 June 2025 But the true wow moment came from a coat of Sherwin-Williams’s Nugget, inspired by a shade in some fabric in an adjacent room. The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for a shade

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“A shade.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/a%20shade. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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