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

Depending on the brand and seasoning, a 3-ounce serving can contain anywhere from about 300 to more than 600 milligrams of sodium.

— Lynn Andriani, Martha Stewart, 15 Aug. 2026
Since the first Operation Mercury in 2019, the price of gold has more than tripled globally, rising from an average of about $1,394 an ounce that year to roughly $4,395 an ounce today -- an increase of about 215%.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of ounce

Noun

Combining vaccines is still only giving them only a fraction the number of things they are already being exposed to.

— Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
With just a fraction of its inspectors — 20 in 2024 — dedicated to foreign providers, the agency often pulls from domestic inspector ranks.

— Julia Ingram, CBS News, 11 Aug. 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

Noun

Next the Dolphins would see 13 years of wheel-spinning (2012-25) with Ryan Tannehill and Tua Tagovailoa, and a smidgen of Ryan Fitzpatrick in between.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 10 Aug. 2026
Now, the entire spread is ready for its next chapter, having just hit the market for a smidge under $6 million.

— Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of smidgen

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But over the decades, physicists found a way to rewrite the theories and re-derive them in a more atom-friendly way.

— Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 17 Aug. 2026
In this approach, atoms are cooled down to temperatures near absolute zero using lasers and changes are recorded by comparing the frequency of the clock to these slowed down atoms.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 17 Aug. 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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