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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
Noun
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Healthy Rewards Members can receive a free 12-ounce Hydration Watermelon Smoothie from participating locations on Sunday, June 21.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
20 June 2026
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Businesses cannot sell more than one 16-ounce alcoholic beverage for public consumption per customer in a single transaction.—
Matt Schooley,
CBS News,
19 June 2026
Noun
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In many cases, inexpensive drones can kill or seriously wound Russian personnel at a fraction of the cost associated with traditional military systems.—
Hunter LaCroix,
Baltimore Sun,
20 June 2026
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What the world sees—the valuation, the contracts, the cultural dominance—is the fraction above the waterline.—
Julian Hayes II,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2026
Noun
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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
Noun
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When Ava runs off to the bathroom, Deborah instinctively reaches for her notebook and jots down another idea.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
29 May 2026
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Sometimes the import agent or the customs official jots down the wrong product code, the wrong tariff rate, or the wrong number of units.—
Robert Goulder,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2026
Noun
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An offshoot of Eagle staple Schnitzel Garten, the fledgling lunch destination already has dropped some of its schnitzel sandwich prices a smidge, making all five options $16.—
Michael Deeds,
Idaho Statesman,
11 June 2026
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O’Neill could understandably view himself as deserving of a smidge more, especially considering the year-over-year salary-cap increase.—
Alec Lewis,
New York Times,
9 June 2026
Noun
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However, the operation of these systems tends to heat the atoms, and moving them around is slow, so they get lost at a problematic frequency.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
17 June 2026
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Using the chemical reaction that occurs on the Sun, fusion energy can potentially generate large amounts of energy from simpler atoms like hydrogen and its isotopes.—
Ameya Paleja,
Interesting Engineering,
17 June 2026
Noun
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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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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
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Every iota of data about a prospect, then, becomes pregnant with meaning.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
4 June 2026
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The commonly mistaken base assumption is that the greatest minds that have devised AI and consumed so much money doing so must certainly know every iota of how AI works.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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“Halfpenny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfpenny. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.
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