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Recent Examples of small-time
Fans of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán—a small-time autocrat who has impoverished his country, now one of the poorest in Europe, while enriching his family and friends—make common cause with Americans who have broken the law, gone to jail, stolen from their own charities, or harassed women.
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Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
Jeon Seok-ho is consistently amusing as Woo-seok, an excitable small-time criminal who joins Jun-ho in the search for the island.
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 26 Dec. 2024
Episode 7: Life of Sin Thanks to a tip from an unexpected source, the Nashville police turned their focus to a shady small-time music promoter.
—Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
In the novel, the character was not a small-time dealer.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2024
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Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
Jeon Seok-ho is consistently amusing as Woo-seok, an excitable small-time criminal who joins Jun-ho in the search for the island.
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 26 Dec. 2024
Episode 7: Life of Sin Thanks to a tip from an unexpected source, the Nashville police turned their focus to a shady small-time music promoter.
—Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
In the novel, the character was not a small-time dealer.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 18 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for small-time
Adjective
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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
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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
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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
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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
Adjective
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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
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Trying to nickel-and-dime such an important player could have done more harm than good.—
Darnell Mayberry,
The Athletic,
1 Aug. 2024
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But, according to Bob Nightengale of USA Today, this isn't a one-horse race.—
Kevin Lynn,
Newsweek,
8 Jan. 2025
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The Brazilian star was expected to be in a one-horse race for the sport's highest indvidual accolade and become the first man from his country to win it since Kaka in 2007.—
Tom Sanderson,
Forbes,
28 Oct. 2024
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“Small-time.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/small-time. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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