ha'penny

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ha'penny
Noun
  • The show also begged us to care one whit about Nick’s secret romance with… Jessica’s sister!!!
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The lack of logic Trump’s fun-house version of justice may not matter a whit to voters, or alter even slightly their perceptions of the two major parties.
    Mark Z. Barabak, The Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The goal: to produce more than 4 million pounds of strawberries annually — even in the middle of winter — on a piece of land that is a fraction of the size of Central Park.
    Sarah Sekula, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The radiation doses from a chest x-ray or from an annual mammogram are much smaller—approximately 2-13 mrem, which is a tiny fraction of the annual background dose of 300 mrem.
    Paul Hsieh, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Nab the Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless headphones that wrap your ears in plush comfort while adaptive noise canceling dials the world down to a whisper at 21% off.
    Shubham Yewale, PC Magazine, 22 Apr. 2025
  • In Drama, there’s the second season of Squid Game, which returned with a whisper as compared to the blaring horns of its breakthrough first season.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Indeed, in 2023, his music earned him just shy of $200,000, about one halfpenny at a time.
    Brett Martin, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024
  • In nineteenth-century England, tailors would place old halfpennies in the pockets of a man’s new suit for good luck.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • His music can best be described as neoclassical, with pop and electronic elements — and a dash of ambient smoothness.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025
  • There, the younger Revel impressed the college coaches with his elite speed and athleticism, running the 40-yard dash in 4.4 seconds and showcasing a 39-inch vertical leap.
    Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • To those that have already made their mind up about migrants and Muslims, Fall’s film won’t make a jot of difference.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Any guy who journals, writes, or simply jots down notes will use it forever.
    Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Her poems of that era — sonnets, epigrams, eminently quotable snippets of rhymed gossip — pulse with the dynamism and attitude of the modern city.
    A.O. Scott, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025
  • This awesome 5-minute featurette offers a wealth of new footage, costume unveilings, filming snippets, the Daily Planet set, a Kryptonian robot, and more cameras rolling making-of moments, in addition to candid comments by cast and crew and even James Gunn himself.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Every scene is a joy because every performance is perfectly pitched, and there’s not a shred of fat on Deborah Moggach’s screenplay (which received an uncredited development assist from Emma Thompson).
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Miss Manners can promise you that there will not be a shred of curiosity left in those formerly nosy questioners.
    Judith Martin, Mercury News, 21 Apr. 2025
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“Ha'penny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ha%27penny. Accessed 7 May. 2025.

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