nickel-and-dime

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Recent Examples of nickel-and-dime That’s caused the run game to fade and forced Patrick Mahomes to lean more into a nickel-and-dime approach. Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025 Trying to nickel-and-dime such an important player could have done more harm than good. Darnell Mayberry, The Athletic, 1 Aug. 2024 Southwest Airlines, which set itself apart from its nickel-and-dime competitors, will soon scrap its open-seat policy and charge folks for more legroom. Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 26 July 2024 Love or hate Apple, the company’s nickel-and-dime approach to cables, dongles, and chargers primed people to believe reports like this. Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2023 Finally, though, the Bengals didn’t nickel-and-dime a deal to death. Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 8 Sep. 2023 Doyel:Pacers won't get off mediocrity treadmill with nickel-and-dime moves from NBA Draft Nate Laszewski, Notre Dame Basketball fans in the state of Indiana should be familiar with Nate Laszewski of Notre Dame. Indystar Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 23 June 2023 This hasn’t even touched on other ways Disneyland can nickel-and-dime guests. Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023 The break-in at a Philadelphia parking lot wasn’t a nickel-and-dime case. Phil Helsel, NBC News, 14 Apr. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nickel-and-dime
Adjective
  • Its protagonist is an extremely average man who, through his small-time moneymaking schemes, desires to gain even the slightest advantage over others.
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Andor may feel smaller than most other Star Wars titles by focusing on fringe planets and small-time Imperial bureaucrats rather than Grand Moffs and Jedi.
    Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • But the smoke is still rising, and petty partisanship is a distraction and disservice at the moment, given all that’s been lost, and all the hard work of moving forward.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
  • In an era of steadily declining trust in media, the dry formalities of a legal template provide not only an imprimatur of institutional credibility, but also the freedom to go into extreme amounts of detail without seeming petty, tedious or self-indulgent.
    Eleanor Hawkins, Axios, 9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • In text messages from August 2022 produced in the suit, Ruiz indicates that the amount was to be paid in a pre-set amount of company stock that was worth less at that point and is practically worthless now.
    Ben Wieder and, Miami Herald, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Some celebrities have been accused of operating pump-and-dump schemes with their coins, using their social media following to artificially inflate the value of these coins before cashing in their large holdings and rendering the coins worthless.
    Ben Dandridge-Lemco, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2024

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“Nickel-and-dime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nickel-and-dime. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.

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