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Recent Examples of small-time
Statham plays Turkish, a small-time boxing promoter who gets on the wrong side of a big-time crime boss after a fight goes south.
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Elliott Smith, EW.com, 26 July 2025
His journey from small-time criminal to heavy metal’s comic Prince of Darkness started with clothes.
—Jim Windolf, New York Times, 23 July 2025
And with the cartels involved, small-time crooks take advantage of the fear and run their own little extortion rackets, pretending to be associated with larger organized crime groups.
—Fabiola Sánchez, Fortune, 11 July 2025
Alfredo’s lifelong business partner and small-time gangster Annibale (Marco Giallini) even sees it as his chance to ask Lorella on a date.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 July 2025
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Elliott Smith, EW.com, 26 July 2025
His journey from small-time criminal to heavy metal’s comic Prince of Darkness started with clothes.
—Jim Windolf, New York Times, 23 July 2025
And with the cartels involved, small-time crooks take advantage of the fear and run their own little extortion rackets, pretending to be associated with larger organized crime groups.
—Fabiola Sánchez, Fortune, 11 July 2025
Alfredo’s lifelong business partner and small-time gangster Annibale (Marco Giallini) even sees it as his chance to ask Lorella on a date.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for small-time
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The newspaper reported at the time that Zinn has a criminal record dating back to 1989 that includes dozens of convictions for petty crimes such as criminal trespass, theft of services, interfering with a police officer and disturbing the peace.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Sep. 2025
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The petty back-and-forth continued throughout the interview and escalated to the point that Dash threatened to get physical with CTG.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
16 Sep. 2025
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Then, the company would have to prove that its investments have been made largely worthless because of tariffs.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
11 Sep. 2025
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Even as tutor modes are refined and improved, students have to actively select that mode and, for now, also have to play along, deftly providing context and guiding the chatbot away from worthless, low-level questions or sycophancy.—
Brian W. Stone,
The Conversation,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The nickel-and-dime crack sales; the tickets for open containers — none of that mattered anymore.—
Paul Solotaroff,
Rolling Stone,
11 May 2025
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With a comfy 16-point cushion entering the fourth quarter, though, Adelman turned to Jordan again to nickel-and-dime Jokic a few minutes of rest.—
Luca Evans,
Denver Post,
29 Apr. 2025
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If either achieves even half the cadence and reliability of Falcon 9, the private space industry will finally move from a one-horse race to a true competition.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Sep. 2025
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The Athletic reported on Tuesday that Tottenham are in a one-horse race to sign the 27-year-old from Crystal Palace, after north London rivals Arsenal cooled their interest.—
Elias Burke,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Small-time.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/small-time. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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