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Recent Examples of two-bit
The current mayor couldn’t build a two-bit coalition.
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Kevin Sherrington, Dallas Morning News, 13 Apr. 2026
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Explaining the Blue Jackets
The Buffalo Sabres may be the story of the season, with every two-bit hack pumping their tires these days.
—Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2026
Cristian’s fixation on winning a vintage two-bit arcade game on the sidewalk not far from Olga’s home is a romantic touch that turns, briefly, surreal as Cristian mentally threads his experience with the game into his experience with his now certainly dying mother.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 18 Feb. 2026
For now, his anxieties are managed with imagination and play: In particular, a quaintly two-bit arcade game outside a local convenience store fills a lot of empty, unsupervised hours.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026
Indeed, one of the main attractions of such grand movie houses was the opulence itself – where everyday Joes, Janes and Junes might be enveloped in grandeur with a two-bit ticket.
—Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 11 Feb. 2026
Using sensors and vibration patterns The patch encodes text by breaking each ASCII character into four segments, with each sensor representing a two-bit segment.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 6 Dec. 2025
One memorable 1944 cover featured a bunch of Hitlers as two-bit thieves pilfering everyday goods.
—Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
Initially, theater houses exhibited short clips in dingy rooms and were considered little more than two-bit sideshows.
—Hannah Fish, Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2025
Kevin Sherrington, Dallas Morning News, 13 Apr. 2026
Try streaming games like these for free on Fubo.
Explaining the Blue Jackets
The Buffalo Sabres may be the story of the season, with every two-bit hack pumping their tires these days.
—Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2026
Cristian’s fixation on winning a vintage two-bit arcade game on the sidewalk not far from Olga’s home is a romantic touch that turns, briefly, surreal as Cristian mentally threads his experience with the game into his experience with his now certainly dying mother.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 18 Feb. 2026
For now, his anxieties are managed with imagination and play: In particular, a quaintly two-bit arcade game outside a local convenience store fills a lot of empty, unsupervised hours.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 18 Feb. 2026
Indeed, one of the main attractions of such grand movie houses was the opulence itself – where everyday Joes, Janes and Junes might be enveloped in grandeur with a two-bit ticket.
—Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 11 Feb. 2026
Using sensors and vibration patterns The patch encodes text by breaking each ASCII character into four segments, with each sensor representing a two-bit segment.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 6 Dec. 2025
One memorable 1944 cover featured a bunch of Hitlers as two-bit thieves pilfering everyday goods.
—Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 June 2025
Initially, theater houses exhibited short clips in dingy rooms and were considered little more than two-bit sideshows.
—Hannah Fish, Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for two-bit
Adjective
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As the latter became emblematic of comfort and success, the former came to be seen as down-market or second-class.—
Lily Meyer,
The Atlantic,
30 Apr. 2026
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In those days, Illinois-breds were considered second-class citizens of American racing.—
Neil Milbert,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Of course, David went on to build one of the most illustrious careers in television with characters who are often arrogant, petty and unlikable by traditional media standards.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
8 May 2026
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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
Adjective
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The animation features a lot of rotoscoping, and the result is an aesthetic that’s both oddly fluid and charmingly cheap, like some second-rate Ralph Bakshi effort.—
Eric Vilas-Boas,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2026
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For those who don't know his story, Darnold has gone through so much during his last eight seasons, including being pushed around the league like a second-rate quarterback and being called a bust by many in the profession.—
Noe Padilla,
USA Today,
9 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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And while this has now become a one-horse race, with that proposal carrying the day heading into a May 28 vote at the league’s next Board of Governors meeting, there are still more discussions — and possible changes — to come.—
Sam Amick,
New York Times,
5 May 2026
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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
Adjective
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Power distribution is observed during propulsion operations, with auxiliary machinery and onboard systems running simultaneously.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Apr. 2026
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There are also auxiliary and USB inputs.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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While the Lynx lost a close 91-90 contest to the Dream on Saturday, the game itself was secondary to the continued vitriol against ICE stirring in the WNBA and NBA.—
Alejandro Avila OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
11 May 2026
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While the damages award was overturned by an appeals court in 2024, that court gave Sony a partial win by finding that Cox was guilty of contributory copyright infringement—a type of secondary liability for contributing to others’ infringement.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
11 May 2026
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“Two-bit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/two-bit. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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