small beer

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Recent Examples of small beer This is small beer for a government committing genocide (according to the U.S. State Department and other bodies). Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 30 July 2024 This includes fresh paint in several places, some new concession stands, a small beer garden, new lights, and perhaps most notably, two new video boards flanking the stage. Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 3 July 2024 And while goofing around in a theater was fun, the challenge and buzz of playing for knowing audiences was small beer indeed compared to the whole-of-being workout of doing undercover improv on national tv and radio. Matt Thompson, SPIN, 7 Feb. 2024 Another type of small beer — so named because of its low alcohol content, typically 2 to 4 percent — was made by reusing grain from a previous brew. Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023 See All Example Sentences for small beer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for small beer
Noun
  • My memoir was built of gaps, juxtaposition, weird little nothings.
    Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The one whose legs turned nothings into somethings, improvising the Lions’ entire defensive game plan into a pile of ash?
    Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • Yesterday’s pangrams were triviality, trivially and virality.
    Alex Travelli, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Never issue false assurances, but don’t dwell on trivialities either.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Still, there are ways to make small changes to personalize these useful spaces.
    Tessa Cooper, Southern Living, 9 May 2025
  • Though the broad strokes of her life were the same, her encounter with the criminal justice system did lead to a few small changes.
    Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 17 Apr. 2025

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“Small beer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/small%20beer. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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