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Recent Examples of small-time
What Jack doesn’t bet on is the re-emergence of Wendy’s toxic ex-boyfriend Chuck (Cory Michael Smith), a small-time pilot who isn’t made any less attractive for the fact that his life is in shambles.
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Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2026
Last year, a jury sentenced Ragan to a lifetime behind bars for the execution-style murder of Luis Miguel Perez, a small-time drug dealer, at a Miami motel.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
Despite the splashy Ferraro deal, Oren had continued to score mostly small-time sales — condos and apartments under $2 million.
—James D. Walsh, Curbed, 10 Mar. 2026
And yet, parts of the industry still feel small-time.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 26 Feb. 2026
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Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2026
Last year, a jury sentenced Ragan to a lifetime behind bars for the execution-style murder of Luis Miguel Perez, a small-time drug dealer, at a Miami motel.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
Despite the splashy Ferraro deal, Oren had continued to score mostly small-time sales — condos and apartments under $2 million.
—James D. Walsh, Curbed, 10 Mar. 2026
And yet, parts of the industry still feel small-time.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 26 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for small-time
Adjective
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Middle school is, famously, a time of petty cruelty and small-scale social Darwinism.—
Anna Wiener,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Detractors consider this format both mind-numbing and salacious, engineered for immediate gratification and often focused on cast members’ petty personal grievances and rock-bottom moments.—
Daisy Jones,
Vogue,
2 May 2026
Adjective
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Loyalty points may be worthless Clint Henderson, a travel expert with The Points Guy, said many Spirit Airlines customers could see the value of their loyalty points vanish, with little chance of recovering them.—
Mirna Alsharif,
NBC news,
2 May 2026
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While the players who spent thousands of dollars on Legacy land plots still technically control the associated NFTs, those crypto tokens are practically worthless without an active game to monetize them.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Full-service hotels like Marriott and InterContinental still offer a more inclusive experience, and international airlines like Qatar Airways don't nickel-and-dime you for luggage.—
Christopher Elliott,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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The nickel-and-dime crack sales; the tickets for open containers — none of that mattered anymore.—
Paul Solotaroff,
Rolling Stone,
11 May 2025
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McCarthy moved to his current studio in 2012, and around then, bought land out in the Tehachapi Mountains to serve as Wild West backdrops, not unlike the early film studios buying up tumbleweed stables in Topanga to serve as facsimiles of one-horse towns to shoot westerns.—
Nate Freeman,
Vanity Fair,
25 Feb. 2026
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By the end of my life, there may be no one left who speaks like my father outside the hollers and the one-horse towns.—
Annie Joy Williams,
The Atlantic,
4 Jan. 2026
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“Small-time.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/small-time. Accessed 7 May. 2026.
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