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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.
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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.
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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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The mine produced 31,500 ounces of gold — worth more than $110 million today — before shutting down in the 1930s, with reports suggesting significant deposits remain below the 200-foot level.
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Perhaps its most red card-worthy offense was relegating Kuno Becker’s charismatic lead — the series’ only mainstay — to bit part, focusing instead on two new England internationals without an ounce of personality.
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At the same time, Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, which has been tapped to cover budget shortfalls, is being rapidly depleted and just a fraction of prewar levels.
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Only about a quarter of the American workforce has formal STEM training, a far smaller fraction of which has the specific vocational background needed in aerospace production.
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Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.
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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.
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When Ava runs off to the bathroom, Deborah instinctively reaches for her notebook and jots down another idea.
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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.
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The pace quickens, the characters start using their brains and there's even the smallest smidgen of levity mixed in with all the heads on pikes and grieving mothers.
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This $40 option weighs just a smidge over half a pound but can hold up to 20 liters.
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These devices use quantum systems, such as atoms or electron spins, as highly sensitive probes.
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Each carbon atom in the diamond is bound to four other carbon atoms.
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The kenning’s true meaning lies beyond the edges of my comprehension.
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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.
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Every iota of data about a prospect, then, becomes pregnant with meaning.
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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.
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“Halfpenny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfpenny. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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