Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for halfpence
Noun
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In the heat, steady sipping is best — about 8 ounces every 15 to 20 minutes.—
Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt,
CNN Money,
30 Sep. 2025 -
Drink 7 to 10 ounces of water every 10 to 20 minutes during exercise.—
Rebecca Valdez,
Verywell Health,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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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
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There are so many life lessons packed into baking a simple birthday cake or a blueberry muffin, and not just how to do fractions.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
30 Sep. 2025
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Even if a harvester can outgas regolith reliably, separating minute traces of helium-3 from helium-4 and other gases at low mass fractions requires sophisticated cryogenic or membrane systems.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Yes, these flecks are seeds that were once inside of a vanilla bean, confirms Britton.—
Karla Walsh,
Better Homes & Gardens,
24 Sep. 2025
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This uncanny coincidence — that the Earth’s radiation lines up with the energies of carbon dioxide’s mixed vibrational/rotational quantum state — is how this tiny trace of molecules, mere flecks in the air, completely dominates our climate.—
Joseph Howlett,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The researchers worked on beam delivery, a system of lasers that trap and cool these atoms.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Sep. 2025
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The hydrogen atoms in the exosphere generate a faint glow called the geocorona, which is only detectable in ultraviolet light at great distances.—
Kyle Orland,
ArsTechnica,
24 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Incensed at being outsmarted, the CEO of Weyland-Yutani (Sandra Yi Sencindive) allows one of her employees, a cyborg with very few scruples named Morrow (Babou Ceesay), to use any means necessary to reacquire the biological specimens.—
Josh Weiss,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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At this point in its history, the theory goes, the United States requires a willful and largely unaccountable power to impose changes that leaders with more delicate sensibilities and procedural scruples cannot ever accomplish.—
Russell Muirhead,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The film’s devastating revelations of intimate betrayals dispel nostalgia and sentiment down to the last shreds.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
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But Trump in his second term has discarded any remaining shreds of conservative restraint (small government?—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This would either be an acaricide — a pesticide that kills ticks and mites, and is found in many pet flea collars and tick medications — or a vaccine that would make the deer more resistant to Lyme disease over time.—
Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
24 Sep. 2025
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Although mites are arachnids, the most common garden insect pests, namely aphids, scales, mealybugs, and whiteflies, all suck from plant foliage with stylets.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
20 Sep. 2025
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“Halfpence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfpence. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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