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Recent Examples of piddle
In short, its core competency needs to be responding to predictable natural disasters rather than virtue-signaling about climate change that its expensive (but piddling in the global scheme of things) green-energy initiatives are powerless to affect one way or the other.
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The Editors, National Review, 13 Jan. 2025
When Hemingway returned to in-office work after his European sojourn, Hindmarsh
immediately decided that Hemingway needed his ego punctured and gave his new staffer a series of piddling assignments.
—Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 6 Jan. 2025
There’s even a humbling sequence set in the real Carrara, where, against the quarry’s raw splendor, the mighty modern excavators look as piddling as Hot Wheels on the basement stairs.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
Even that piddling storage and range rapidly degraded, especially in the southwestern United States and other searing climates, leaving customers howling.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Apr. 2022
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The Editors, National Review, 13 Jan. 2025
When Hemingway returned to in-office work after his European sojourn, Hindmarsh
immediately decided that Hemingway needed his ego punctured and gave his new staffer a series of piddling assignments.
—Emily Zarevich, JSTOR Daily, 6 Jan. 2025
There’s even a humbling sequence set in the real Carrara, where, against the quarry’s raw splendor, the mighty modern excavators look as piddling as Hot Wheels on the basement stairs.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
Even that piddling storage and range rapidly degraded, especially in the southwestern United States and other searing climates, leaving customers howling.
—IEEE Spectrum, 25 Apr. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for piddle
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The Socceroos will try their best to muck it up and play a very defensive brand of soccer against America, while also boasting a great goalkeeper in Matthew Ryan.—
Austin Perry,
FOXNews.com,
10 June 2026
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But Ehlers has given Carolina a newfound level of offensive depth, especially given he’s meshed surprisingly well with Jordan Staal and Jordan Martinook, two veteran checkers who have been mucking and grinding for years on a team that does that better than anyone.—
James Mirtle,
New York Times,
24 May 2026
Verb
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Hormone changes can mess with your oral health.—
Erica Sweeney,
Washington Post,
12 June 2026
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Marilyn, Nixon, the Kennedys, Bay of Pigs—we’ve seen Ellroy messing with this material long before the Quintet.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2026
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Some were drawn first to the language and its interna ideo, only to later realize the travel benefits involved; others had learned the language specifically to bum around.—
Katie Thornton,
Harpers Magazine,
26 May 2026
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That means, as some critics of the ban have pointed out, that 18-year-olds will almost certainly bum cigarettes from older friends—the same way younger teens have acquired them since time immemorial.—
Nicholas Florko,
The Atlantic,
19 May 2026
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But that still left the less-than-trifling matter of the second tier’s title to settle, as the teams were locked together on 97 points with one game still to play.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
1 May 2026
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Meanwhile, that global temperature record that DiCaprio mentioned in his acceptance speech in 2016 seems almost trifling compared to what has happened since.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Mar. 2026
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Indeed, Ederson has moments where he can be caught dawdling with the ball, hoping for an opening that doesn’t always arrive.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
5 June 2026
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But Koreeda dawdles over all that without ever finding much dramatic nuance, making for a dullish midsection.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
16 May 2026
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Kurt's key takeaways Rick's story is a tough reminder that scams can look polished enough to fool careful people.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
15 June 2026
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Busch wasn’t fooled when San Francisco Giants lefty reliever Erik Miller hung a 1-1 slider over the plate in the fifth inning.—
Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
13 June 2026
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With supply running low toward the end of most evenings, savvy bun fanatics don’t monkey around, routinely calling ahead to request an extra skillet of rolls set aside just for them.—
Valerie Demicheva and Flora Chang,
San Francisco Chronicle,
26 July 2021
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But this experiment isn't about monkeying around—this a real security and safety hazard, the researchers point out in a new paper.—
Courtney Linder,
Popular Mechanics,
31 Jan. 2020
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The sense of just how much there is to do in this part of the world—the length of the scale between lazing and becoming ultra-active—is palpable.—
Lauren Keith,
Robb Report,
30 May 2026
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Instead of setting up a spot on the sand, beachgoers typically pitch their chairs in the shallow clear blue water and laze the day away.—
Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
25 Feb. 2026
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