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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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Gold prices have been scaling fresh highs and hit $3,500 per ounce on Tuesday, with more analysts forecasting that prices will rally further.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
24 Apr. 2025
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On Tuesday, gold broke above $3,500 per ounce, putting its gains for the year above 32%, however, prices reversed and ended the day at $3,419.—
JJ Kinahan,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The goal: to produce more than 4 million pounds of strawberries annually — even in the middle of winter — on a piece of land that is a fraction of the size of Central Park.—
Sarah Sekula,
USA Today,
29 Apr. 2025
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The radiation doses from a chest x-ray or from an annual mammogram are much smaller—approximately 2-13 mrem, which is a tiny fraction of the annual background dose of 300 mrem.—
Paul Hsieh,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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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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
Noun
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In the mouth this is elegant and creamy, layered, well structured, complex with toffee flavors and even a smidgen of Amarone and pine.—
Tom Mullen,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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The extra coverage is advantageous for landscapes, architecture, and other scenes that are just a smidgen too vast for a typical all-in-one zoom to capture in frame.—
Jim Fisher,
PCMAG,
24 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The average density of matter in space is something like one atom per cubic meter.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
25 Apr. 2025
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Meanwhile, some investors say that businesses operating both offline and online, or atoms and bits respectively, are best positioned to compete.—
Ernestine Siu,
CNBC,
25 Apr. 2025
Noun
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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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By finally publishing it in the party’s flagship journal, the inference is that none of the intervening turmoil has made China’s leadership alter course one iota.—
Charlie Campbell,
TIME,
5 Mar. 2025
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As anyone who’s watched an iota of sports programming over the past few years can attest, the betting business doesn’t traffic in subtlety.—
Sean Gregory / Boston,
TIME,
27 Jan. 2025
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“Halfpenny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/halfpenny. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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