as in second-class
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Recent Examples of two-bit
Their only inheritance is a legacy of two-bit crime that inspires them to run increasingly audacious frauds.
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Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
25 June 2026
Head right, and there came public land, the Shasta-Trinity National Forest with its creeks and gulches and two-bit towns like Peanut and Beegum.
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Literary Hub,
22 June 2026
Their only inheritance is a legacy of two-bit crime that inspires them to run increasingly audacious frauds.
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Joe Otterson,
Variety,
4 June 2026
Cristian’s fixation on winning a vintage two-bit arcade game on the sidewalk not far from Olga’s home is a romantic touch that turns, briefly, surreal as Cristian mentally threads his experience with the game into his experience with his now certainly dying mother.
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Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
18 Feb. 2026
Indeed, one of the main attractions of such grand movie houses was the opulence itself – where everyday Joes, Janes and Junes might be enveloped in grandeur with a two-bit ticket.
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Jody Mamone,
Hartford Courant,
11 Feb. 2026
Using sensors and vibration patterns The patch encodes text by breaking each ASCII character into four segments, with each sensor representing a two-bit segment.
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Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Dec. 2025
Initially, theater houses exhibited short clips in dingy rooms and were considered little more than two-bit sideshows.
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Hannah Fish,
Christian Science Monitor,
18 Feb. 2025
Nellie Andreeva,
Deadline,
25 June 2026
Head right, and there came public land, the Shasta-Trinity National Forest with its creeks and gulches and two-bit towns like Peanut and Beegum.
—
Literary Hub,
22 June 2026
Their only inheritance is a legacy of two-bit crime that inspires them to run increasingly audacious frauds.
—
Joe Otterson,
Variety,
4 June 2026
Cristian’s fixation on winning a vintage two-bit arcade game on the sidewalk not far from Olga’s home is a romantic touch that turns, briefly, surreal as Cristian mentally threads his experience with the game into his experience with his now certainly dying mother.
—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
18 Feb. 2026
Indeed, one of the main attractions of such grand movie houses was the opulence itself – where everyday Joes, Janes and Junes might be enveloped in grandeur with a two-bit ticket.
—
Jody Mamone,
Hartford Courant,
11 Feb. 2026
Using sensors and vibration patterns The patch encodes text by breaking each ASCII character into four segments, with each sensor representing a two-bit segment.
—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Dec. 2025
Initially, theater houses exhibited short clips in dingy rooms and were considered little more than two-bit sideshows.
—
Hannah Fish,
Christian Science Monitor,
18 Feb. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for two-bit
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The Catholic Church reserves the priesthood for men, and women have long complained of a second-class status despite carrying out the lion’s share of the church’s work running schools, hospitals and passing the faith onto younger generations.
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Throughout history, toxic males in many cultures have worked hard to limit women’s options, control their behavior and treat them as second-class human beings.
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The killing has drawn comparisons to other instances of other Black people who lost their life in cases of accusations of petty criminal offenses, such as the murder of George Floyd.
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Some were petty — like Reese committing a foul against Clark, then jerking her head back, impersonating Clark as a flopper.
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For many, their style of play seemed to encapsulate all that was second-rate about Manchester United after the glory years of Sir Alex Ferguson.
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The current system buys shareholder returns for the primes and second-rate capability for those in uniform.
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And while this has now become a one-horse race, with that proposal carrying the day heading into a May 28 vote at the league’s next Board of Governors meeting, there are still more discussions — and possible changes — to come.
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McCarthy moved to his current studio in 2012, and around then, bought land out in the Tehachapi Mountains to serve as Wild West backdrops, not unlike the early film studios buying up tumbleweed stables in Topanga to serve as facsimiles of one-horse towns to shoot westerns.
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Ouachita County sheriff's office Chief Deputy Larry McMahen said Truelove is a former auxiliary officer with the sheriff's office but had not been certified as an auxiliary officer in quite some time.
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The business operates across avionics, navigation, flight controls, sensing, aerospace electronics, auxiliary power systems, thermal management and mission-critical defense technologies.
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Filing a secondary service connection claim with proper documentation is the necessary first step toward coverage.
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IPOs that do have widely available stock to the public historically underperform, meaning that those insiders and institutional players passed on an opportunity to buy before the stock was in the secondary market.
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“Two-bit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/two-bit. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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