variants
or less commonly smidgeon
or smidgin
or smidge
: a small amount : bit
a smidgen of salt
a smidgen of common sense
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Examples of smidgen in a Sentence
I'll just have a smidgen of ice cream.
the maid cleaned the house until there wasn't even a smidgen of dust left
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Joe’s home life is again explored, in between (and amid) moments of professional crisis, but with a smidgen more transparency than that which kept her at arm’s length from husband Neal (Annable) and their two daughters in Season 1.
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Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 25 Oct. 2024
Despite the pledge made in 2013 by his successor, Shinzo Abe, to double FDI, as of 2019 the ratio was only a smidgen higher, at 4.4 percent.
—Richard Katz, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2021
There’s even a smidgen of poignance in the late going, when outright war between the two couples takes the form of a dangerously inebriated vehicular chase on curvy rural roads.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 19 July 2024
Sunday was a red-letter day for airports across the country, the TSA reported, with a record 3 million people filling the security lines — a smidgen higher than the previous record of 2.99 million, which was set on June 23.
—Ashley Ahn, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2024
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Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 25 Oct. 2024
Despite the pledge made in 2013 by his successor, Shinzo Abe, to double FDI, as of 2019 the ratio was only a smidgen higher, at 4.4 percent.
—Richard Katz, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2021
There’s even a smidgen of poignance in the late going, when outright war between the two couples takes the form of a dangerously inebriated vehicular chase on curvy rural roads.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 19 July 2024
Sunday was a red-letter day for airports across the country, the TSA reported, with a record 3 million people filling the security lines — a smidgen higher than the previous record of 2.99 million, which was set on June 23.
—Ashley Ahn, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2024
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“Smidgen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/smidgen. Accessed 13 Nov. 2024.
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