halfpence

variants or halfpennies
plural of halfpenny

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for halfpence
Noun
  • The world-record Wels, or European catfish, weighed 297 pounds and 9 ounces and was caught from Italy’s River Po in March 2010.
    Ken Perrotte, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
  • The sandals are only three ounces and totally worth the small bit of space in your suitcase.
    Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • Archaeobotanists find various parts of plants, including seeds, chaff, fruit pits, nutshells and cobs.
    Alexandria Mitchem Hansen, The Conversation, 19 Dec. 2025
  • And these nutshells that are now all restored have been used for that purpose for more than eight decades.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • An agentic workflow that completes successfully might make six redundant API calls to get there, each costing fractions of a cent that compound to thousands of dollars at scale.
    Satyabrat Chowdhury, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • Moreover, these particles had lifespans lasting only fractions of a second and a price tag in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
    Kai James, The Conversation, 26 May 2026
Noun
  • From the train windows, expect to spot the aquamarine waves of Ligurian Sea crashing against the stony coast, candy-colored houses huddled together on the hillsides, tiny wooden boats gliding through village harbors, and flecks of golden-sand beaches.
    Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 June 2026
  • The light had a wintry grain, with flecks of color suspended in it.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • These close-range interactions cause the particles to act collectively rather than as independent units, generating physical properties that cannot be extrapolated by looking at single, isolated atoms.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 7 June 2026
  • Auroras occur when the solar material interacts with the atoms and molecules in Earth's atmosphere.
    Matthew Glasser, ABC News, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • Colonial authorities regularly questioned their character, scruples, and business practices; Grietje and Anthony returned the favor.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 May 2026
  • And like any good femme fatale, Maddy is given savvy at the expense of moral scruples.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Watching the chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation rip Tom Skerritt’s character to shreds on live TV would make for extremely spicy viewing.
    Eric Berger & Lee Hutchinson, ArsTechnica, 31 May 2026
  • Angie is made more complex inside a later version, who is bruised and angry, ready to rip any and everyone to shreds.
    David John Chávez, Mercury News, 29 May 2026
Noun
  • The tiny irritants Americans call chiggers are the larval stage of Trombiculidae mites.
    Eva Flowe June 11, Charlotte Observer, 11 June 2026
  • That great size would have also posed a problem as its food sources on land were all tiny creatures such as mites and other much smaller arachnids.
    Shraddha Chakradhar, CNN Money, 10 June 2026
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“Halfpence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfpence. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.

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