as in damn
the smallest amount or part imaginable
I care not a whit about what other people think
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Recent Examples of whit
People can show up with the most expensive gift and care not a whit about you.
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Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 12 Sep. 2023
But equivocation in a country that doesn’t care a whit if Shakespeare is still on the syllabus can easily pass unnoticed.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
The real reason was that the Fed’s most powerful and vocal constituency was, and remains, the banks, which don’t care one whit about people getting thrown out of work.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
These folks have been sweetening lives here since the early 1950s, and the taffy recipe hasn't changed a whit.
—Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
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Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 12 Sep. 2023
But equivocation in a country that doesn’t care a whit if Shakespeare is still on the syllabus can easily pass unnoticed.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
The real reason was that the Fed’s most powerful and vocal constituency was, and remains, the banks, which don’t care one whit about people getting thrown out of work.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
These folks have been sweetening lives here since the early 1950s, and the taffy recipe hasn't changed a whit.
—Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
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Noun
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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
Noun
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His baritone voice is loud and clear but not overly boosted, and vibrant electric guitar licks and fiddle fills are cleanly presented with clear panning.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
14 Jan. 2025
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Cher Ami, however, managed to make it through—though not without taking his licks (the pigeon was shot in the chest and the leg, and lost an eye).—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
4 Jan. 2025
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Mathematicians greeted his assertions with hoots of laughter, called out to friends across the room, and threw paper airplanes.—
Erica Klarreich,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Jan. 2025
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Photographed by Ben Weller, British Vogue, January 2025 Marianne Jean-Baptiste is a hoot.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
7 Jan. 2025
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Hundreds of commenters who had never met the couple thanked her for the shred of good news.—
Callie Holtermann,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2025
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The record’s new-wave ditties are an amalgamation of strange but immediately identifiable components, chimeras of ’60s pop à la Lesley Gore and the frenzied shred of a skateboarding compilation.—
Pitchfork,
Pitchfork,
3 Dec. 2024
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“Whit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whit. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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