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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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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

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Aerial video captured by ABC7 showed smoke rising from a smoldering truck as a long line of cars extended south of the incident.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
Cigarette Smoke and Environmental Pollution Breathing in cigarette smoke, car exhaust, or factory fumes exposes your lungs to harmful particles.

— Brandi Jones, Verywell Health, 6 July 2026

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For those on a budget with slightly less zeroes, RPM Bakehouse is a more laissez-faire, cafe-slash bakery.

— Kate Dingwall, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
Kids whose families had been chased out of half of Europe started the picture studios, the scrap yards that became fortunes, and eventually the software companies that created a whole new world of ones and zeros.

— Anthony Scaramucci, Fortune, 28 June 2026

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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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Produced again by the classic-rocker whisperer Andrew Watt (Paul McCartney, Elton John, Pearl Jam), the band delivers a clutch of strong songs.

— Marc Ballon, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
But we writers of historical fiction should never forget, in our focus on the vast sweep of time and change, that the symphony itself is composed of lots of little songs.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026

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