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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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

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Moments later, the witness saw smoke coming from the area and notified sheriff’s deputies.

— Karina Tsui, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
Video from the Spokane area showed buildings on fire, black smoke billowing up near neighborhoods, and the smoking ruins of homes, with only chimneys still standing.

— John Hanna, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of smoke

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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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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
This finding offered a new way for Wei and his colleagues to hunt for unexpected zeros of the zeta function.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 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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The lessons of the civil rights movement, the language and songs of homelands, our stories, music and cuisines, have so much power.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026
The project is built around songs that have maintained relevance in the cultural mainstream for decades, pairing each with a different collaborator.

— Sophie Miller, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2026

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