as in damn
the smallest amount or part imaginable
they choose to live modestly and don't seem to give a fig for the trappings of success
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Recent Examples of fig
Menu highlights include polenta, homemade pasta and polenta dishes and a blue cheese fig salad made with cheese and ingredients from the valley.
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Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Care instructions for the fiddle leaf fig are similar to those of the other two plants, including occasional misting (usually once a week), especially in dry conditions.
—Amelia Mularz, Architectural Digest, 17 Jan. 2025
Salted egg yolks will be the new umami bombs, and fig leaves the new wrappers.
—Kim Severson, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Buffets are a religion in Hong Kong and the Fullerton’s is first-rate; at breakfast, the praline mille-feuille finger pastry dipped in fig compote is exquisite.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 17 Dec. 2024
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Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
Care instructions for the fiddle leaf fig are similar to those of the other two plants, including occasional misting (usually once a week), especially in dry conditions.
—Amelia Mularz, Architectural Digest, 17 Jan. 2025
Salted egg yolks will be the new umami bombs, and fig leaves the new wrappers.
—Kim Severson, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
Buffets are a religion in Hong Kong and the Fullerton’s is first-rate; at breakfast, the praline mille-feuille finger pastry dipped in fig compote is exquisite.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 17 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fig
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Shortly thereafter, Facebook changed its name to Meta and sank $45 billion into its vision of a digital universe that most people just don’t seem to give much of a damn about.—
Boone Ashworth,
WIRED,
25 Sep. 2024
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But the rate at which people are ditching cable suggests that carriage fees won’t be worth a tinker’s damn by the time the looming batch of NBA deals expires.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
5 July 2024
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Not just bumping a guy to get a hit on the stat sheet, but maybe getting a good lick on someone and kinda waking the team a little bit.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
20 Jan. 2025
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There were some Kiefer Sherwood shenanigans, a gratuitous Tom Wilson takedown of J.T. Miller and Dubois getting an extra lick in on Hughes for good measure.—
Thomas Drance,
The Athletic,
8 Jan. 2025
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The last-minute Annie Oakley act does not alter that one whit.—
The Editors,
National Review,
30 Sep. 2024
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The same wellness warriors who fret about microplastics seem not to care one whit about the breakdown of medical aesthetics.—
Mattie Kahn,
Vogue,
23 July 2024
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The supporting cast around them is more successful in actually eliciting laughs: Tatro is the film’s exotic-dancing voice of reason, Leanne Morgan plays Margot’s scene-stealing, raunchy older sister, and Celia Weston is a hoot as their tough-love mom.—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
30 Jan. 2025
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Gervais is a hoot, going broad with his slippery antagonist’s freewheeling nonsense.—
Courtney Howard,
Variety,
29 Jan. 2025
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“Fig.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fig. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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