ha'penny

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Noun
  • After 40 minutes, his energy hasn’t flagged a whit.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 2 July 2025
  • Nevertheless, the basic design of commercial nuclear power reactors has changed not a whit.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2010
Noun
  • Without that aid this year, Avalon resorted to scraping 39,000 cubic yards from other areas of its own beach at its own expense — a small fraction of what is typically needed.
    Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 July 2025
  • Private, nonpartisan agencies now offer comparable legal protections for a fraction of MSEA’s cost.
    Jeremy Gosnell, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2025
Noun
  • The whispers grow louder as the beeping becomes more frequent until finally, the alarm sounds.
    EW.com, EW.com, 15 July 2025
  • On LinkedIn, whispers of stealth layoffs and hiring freezes are growing louder.
    Andrew Fennell, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • Indeed, in 2023, his music earned him just shy of $200,000, about one halfpenny at a time.
    Brett Martin, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024
  • In nineteenth-century England, tailors would place old halfpennies in the pockets of a man’s new suit for good luck.
    Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
Noun
  • Inscribed below her name and the dash between the dates are the last two lines from one of her poems.
    Rebecca Chace July 14, Literary Hub, 14 July 2025
  • Of course, with Louisiana flair, the new sauce also has a dash of hot sauce.
    Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • To those that have already made their mind up about migrants and Muslims, Fall’s film won’t make a jot of difference.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Any guy who journals, writes, or simply jots down notes will use it forever.
    Jake Henry Smith, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Episodes are often framed by Sarah Jessica Parker’s voiceover, in a callback to SATC’s quippy narration, reading snippets of the novel that mirror her character’s own life.
    Judy Berman, Time, 11 July 2025
  • People would be watching a regular movie and not realize that snippets of messages had been inserted into the film, flashing by at a rate so fast that the conscious perception cannot readily distinguish them.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 6 July 2025
Noun
  • To date, despite all these ideas, there hasn’t been a single shred of solid evidence for the existence of axions, which naturally drops them down a peg or two on the credibility scale.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 25 June 2025
  • Zoé | 2024 | Canada | Rémi St-Michel | Midwest Premiere | The remaining shreds of Zoe’s mind desperately cling to her vague memories of better feelings.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 June 2025
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“Ha'penny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ha%27penny. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.

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