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Recent Examples of halfpenny
Indeed, in 2023, his music earned him just shy of $200,000, about one halfpenny at a time.
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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
The cost of providing the training, closing the stores and any loss of sales due to boycotting customers won’t show up until the fiscal third quarter when William Blair estimates up to a halfpenny penalty to earnings per share.
—Julie Jargon, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2018
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
The cost of providing the training, closing the stores and any loss of sales due to boycotting customers won’t show up until the fiscal third quarter when William Blair estimates up to a halfpenny penalty to earnings per share.
—Julie Jargon, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for halfpenny
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Catch up with your crew or a date in the red velvet booths over ice cold martinis and their standout menu item, Drai’s caviar pasta which is topped with 0.4 ounces of Reserve Kaluga Caviar.—
Rana Good,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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My body had held on to every morsel of food and liquid ounce, unsure when it would be fed again.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The staple fruit cost a record-breaking $0.66 per pound in July — just a fraction more than the previous high set two months ago.—
Claire Malon,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Aug. 2025
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Only a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, these galaxies have thus far been too faint for most telescopes to spot.—
Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.—
Hartford Courant,
courant.com,
30 Sep. 2017
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Related: Here are some tricks from the CDC for de-ticking yourself: • Put your clothes in the dryer on high heat for a minim of six minutes.—
Valerie Lego,
Detroit Free Press,
20 June 2017
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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
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Any guy who journals, writes, or simply jots down notes will use it forever.—
Jake Henry Smith,
Glamour,
7 Oct. 2024
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She’s tweaked the recipe over the years, with the current version having a smidgen more heat.—
Jenn Harris,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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That’s just a smidgen more than the 5.03% increase in 2023, according to Chief Deputy Assessor Brad Smith.—
Carolyn Komatsoulis,
Idaho Statesman,
7 June 2025
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He was attached to the ultra-secret Manhattan Project, ordered by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1942 with scientists developing two designs of atom bombs that contained explosive power equal to 15,000 to 22,000 tons of TNT.—
David Perlmutt,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Aug. 2025
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This fuzziness refers to the quantum fuzziness that surrounds an atom's exact position, as per the uncertainty principle.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
31 July 2025
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This is a kenning that evokes a natural transition to darkness and also an unfinished human endeavor.—
Jonah Walters,
Longreads,
24 Oct. 2024
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The kenning’s true meaning lies beyond the edges of my comprehension.—
Jonah Walters,
Longreads,
24 Oct. 2024
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But this is not a Day that cares one iota about the Genetic Dynasty, or about surviving the end of the world.—
Rafael Motamayor,
Vulture,
18 July 2025
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But Bertha, ever the social climber, refuses to entertain the notion one iota, instead scheming for Gladys to end up with the Duke of Buckingham.—
Andy Swift,
TVLine,
22 June 2025
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“Halfpenny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfpenny. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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