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Recent Examples of two-bit
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.
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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, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2025
Just a speck in the elaborate web of scandal that seized Anaheim city government, to be sure, but a textbook case of how two-bit tyranny can strangle a righteous American Dream.
—Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 10 May 2024
The four resulting states are used to represent the four possible two-bit combinations: 00, 01, 10, and 11.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Jan. 2016
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, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2025
Just a speck in the elaborate web of scandal that seized Anaheim city government, to be sure, but a textbook case of how two-bit tyranny can strangle a righteous American Dream.
—Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 10 May 2024
The four resulting states are used to represent the four possible two-bit combinations: 00, 01, 10, and 11.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Jan. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for two-bit
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Anne Madarasz, chief historian and director of the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum at the Heinz History Center, says Woodruff was one of just 18 Black athletes who traveled to Berlin that year to represent a country that, in many ways, still treated them as second-class citizens.—
Christopher DeRose,
CBS News,
21 Feb. 2026
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Acknowledging his greatness does not mean forgetting that his philosophy would have allowed—at least in the short term—the continuation of Black Americans’ second-class citizenship.—
Adam Harris,
The Atlantic,
19 Feb. 2026
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Anyone who takes or abandons a shopping cart can be convicted of a petty misdemeanor.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
22 Feb. 2026
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Vanderpump Rules features all the petty drama of Real Housewives with a messy cast of (very flawed) characters who make plenty of mistakes and get into more than their fair share of conflict.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
16 Feb. 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
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Maybe then the United States will care about slipping to second-rate.—
Noah Shachtman,
Wired News,
13 Jan. 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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This week's Far-Flung Postcard series takes you to a food stand in the one-horse town of Marikavalasa in India, where working women go to enjoy a treat and unwind in the evening before returning to the grind.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
11 Dec. 2025
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Theoretically, the addition of Porzingis provides size, auxiliary scoring and floor spacing in key lineups.—
Jannelle Moore,
Mercury News,
16 Feb. 2026
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Defender Michael Keane was used as an auxiliary striker late on.—
Patrick Boyland,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2026
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Adobe's market capitalization stood at $101 billion on Monday, while Canva said in August that it had been valued at $42 billion in a secondary share sale, before the recent plunge in software stocks.—
Jordan Novet,
CNBC,
24 Feb. 2026
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These pathways — such as radio, television and film at Eastside High or advanced manufacturing at Akins High — offer specialized classes for students interested in pursuing a secondary certificate or degree while in high school.—
Data Reporter,
Austin American Statesman,
23 Feb. 2026
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“Two-bit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/two-bit. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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