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

Recognizing the overwhelming demand, Budweiser promptly added another $100,000, enabling 16,600 more Americans to claim a free 16-ounce beer by July 4th.

— Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
The British, meanwhile, have marked 250 years since Americans rose up against their colonial authority by minting a 250-ounce coin.

— Max Grinstein, The Washington Examiner, 3 July 2026

Definition of ounce

Noun

One is that only a small fraction of study participants had been tracked for a full decade, so there's less confidence in the 10-year risk estimate than the five-year risk estimate.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 July 2026
The company employs some 450 engineers, most of whom are steeped in the shipping industry—domain knowledge that Bozeman says has enabled the company to build better models than any third-party vendor could ever supply at a fraction of the cost.

— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 14 July 2026

Definition of fraction

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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
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

Definition of jot

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That’s up a smidge from Ipsos polling in May, but points to the challenge that comes with trying to turn America into a soccer nation.

— Linley Sanders, Fortune, 2 July 2026
And not for nothing, the playoffs would’ve been at least a smidge less crazy-making with Landale available.

— Tyler Estep, AJC.com, 1 July 2026

Definition of smidgen

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Instead, the team posits, the erythrulose might have formed from glycolaldehyde and ethylene glycol—two molecules that were also found in the cloud and that each had a pair of carbon atoms.

— Damien Pine, Scientific American, 13 July 2026
In their experiments, the researchers successfully changed the spin states of atoms using precise radio frequencies.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 10 July 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

Every iota of data about a prospect, then, becomes pregnant with meaning.

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