Thesaurus results for PICAYUNES

picayunes

noun

plural of picayune

as in small beer

something of little importance our lives don't amount to a picayune in the great scheme of things

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Noun

In terms of drinks, colonists didn't have ways to purify their water, so people drank small beer or weak wine, Miller said.

— Ava Berger, NPR, 28 June 2026
In comparison, fifth-tier Wrexham must have seemed like small beer, even allowing for the takeover by Reynolds and Mac just a few months earlier.

— Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 26 June 2026

Definition of small beer

Noun

Satellite imagery shows a haze of wildfire smoke drifting from West Kalimantan into neighboring Malaysia on several days this month, according to BNPB.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026
Videos circulating on social media, and geolocated by CNN, show a huge blaze raging and plumes of smoke rising from an area just outside the city, close to what appear to be the characteristic towers of an oil refinery.

— Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of smoke

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Even seemingly small changes, like adding a blender or microwave to a yacht, can have a major impact on the overall layout and design.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 11 Aug. 2026
In all these systems, a small change in oxygen concentration can affect safety, quality or efficiency.

— Gregory Shahnovsky, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of small change

Noun

Spain’s shrewdness came in their refusal to engage with off-the-ball trivialities.

— Adam Crafton, New York Times, 20 July 2026
After debuting in 2007, The Big Bang Theory entertained viewers with the everyday trivialities and obsessions of friends who work in science.

— Lincee Ray, Entertainment Weekly, 15 June 2026

Definition of trivialities

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My number was a bother to my friends because of the two zeros.

— Murr Brewster, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Aug. 2026
These machines can crunch numbers at blinding speeds—more than a quintillion (that’s a one followed by 18 zeroes) operations a second—assuming they can be fed data fast enough.

— Iain Martin, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of zeros

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But in the past year, the scope of insider trading has grown to unprecedented levels thanks to new platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket that offer bets on everything from major world events to celebrity trifles.

— Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2026
Treaties were trifles compared to armies and bullets.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026

Definition of trifles

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