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Noun
  • Shortly thereafter, Facebook changed its name to Meta and sank $45 billion into its vision of a digital universe that most people just don’t seem to give much of a damn about.
    Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 25 Sep. 2024
  • But the rate at which people are ditching cable suggests that carriage fees won’t be worth a tinker’s damn by the time the looming batch of NBA deals expires.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 5 July 2024
Noun
  • The last-minute Annie Oakley act does not alter that one whit.
    The Editors, National Review, 30 Sep. 2024
  • The same wellness warriors who fret about microplastics seem not to care one whit about the breakdown of medical aesthetics.
    Mattie Kahn, Vogue, 23 July 2024
Noun
  • The supporting cast around them is more successful in actually eliciting laughs: Tatro is the film’s exotic-dancing voice of reason, Leanne Morgan plays Margot’s scene-stealing, raunchy older sister, and Celia Weston is a hoot as their tough-love mom.
    Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Gervais is a hoot, going broad with his slippery antagonist’s freewheeling nonsense.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Not just bumping a guy to get a hit on the stat sheet, but maybe getting a good lick on someone and kinda waking the team a little bit.
    Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
  • There were some Kiefer Sherwood shenanigans, a gratuitous Tom Wilson takedown of J.T. Miller and Dubois getting an extra lick in on Hughes for good measure.
    Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
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“Diddly-squat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diddly-squat. Accessed 15 Feb. 2025.

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