small beer

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Recent Examples of small beer That covers even things like withholding taxes and the administration of those, which sometimes might seem like relatively small beer, but often for some of our members, significant amounts of money. Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024 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 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
  • His reinstatement of Rose and Jackson is no exception: History has become an irrelevant triviality — ignored or, even better, forgotten.
    Cory Franklin, Twin Cities, 1 June 2025
  • Yesterday’s pangrams were triviality, trivially and virality.
    Alex Travelli, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Making small changes to your diet and exercise routine now can make a big impact on your strength and mobility later in life, say the authors of this new book.
    Jessica DuLong, CNN Money, 20 June 2025
  • When your life or business is overly rigid, even small changes create outsized stress.
    Chetna Sethi, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025

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“Small beer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/small%20beer. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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