HALFPENNY Synonyms: 98 Similar and Opposite Words

halfpenny

noun

Definition of halfpenny

as in ounce

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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. — 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

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Noun

The deal will fill the container up to 400 ounces, which is equivalent to two extra-large popcorns, per Cinemark.

— Julia Gomez, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026
Set the scene Upon entering, don't let the grandiose, atrium-esque, white-marbled lobby fool you into thinking there's an ounce of formality or stuffiness here.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of ounce

Noun

Yet people want to act like the outcome is clear on a 19-year-old with a fraction of that experience?

— Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Calculations show that the fraction of neutrinos that could participate collectively is so tiny that even one million atoms fall far below the threshold needed for superradiance.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of fraction

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Sure, these kids have Google Maps and Reels and reinforcing algorithms and whatever, but the human consequences of adult failure have not changed one jot.

— Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 27 Aug. 2026
When Ava runs off to the bathroom, Deborah instinctively reaches for her notebook and jots down another idea.

— Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 May 2026

Definition of jot

Noun

Satin, a fabric that gives the classic shoe a pretty sheen and just a smidge more personality.

— Iman Balagam, InStyle, 18 Aug. 2026
Even though his account has only a smidge more than 13,000 followers, the social media behemoth boosted the auction to other TikTokers.

— Andrew Zucker, HollywoodReporter, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of smidgen

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As a result, the collective decay chain is blocked after the first decay, leaving the maximum emission rate proportional to N—the same scaling expected from independent atoms.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026
The project envisioned an era when the world's goods would crisscross the world powered by the emission-free atom.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of atom

Noun

This is a kenning that evokes a natural transition to darkness and also an unfinished human endeavor.

— Jonah Walters, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2024
Most of the writers attempting to imitate Tolkien weren’t steeped in the rhythm of Old English kennings, or the spiritual yearning of chivalric romance.

— Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023

Definition of kenning

Noun

That buy-in proves essential to a movie whose premise requires you to suspend every iota of your disbelief, lest its Lanthimos-lite approach to child abduction curdle into something much darker.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 17 July 2026
Every iota of data about a prospect, then, becomes pregnant with meaning.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 4 June 2026

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