1
as in mouthful
a small piece or quantity of food
the chef's cuisine is so good that diners will want to savor every morsel
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2
as in speck
a very small piece
searching for any morsel of useful information
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3
as in cipher
a person of no importance or influence
a morsel like her wouldn't last a week in the rough-and-tumble world of Wall Street
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Recent Examples of morsel
Here’s my approach, broken down into easily digestible morsels.
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Melissa Clark, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
In the intervening decades, though, the surviving members have seen their statement get chopped and screwed into morsels, divorced from its context.
—Jazmine Hughes, Them, 20 Dec. 2024
Any morsels of political ideology are cloaked entirely within a lifestyle that these content creators are selling— and young men are buying.
—Tony Peters, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2024
These morsels were smooth, consistent, and sweeter than others.
—Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2024
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Melissa Clark, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
In the intervening decades, though, the surviving members have seen their statement get chopped and screwed into morsels, divorced from its context.
—Jazmine Hughes, Them, 20 Dec. 2024
Any morsels of political ideology are cloaked entirely within a lifestyle that these content creators are selling— and young men are buying.
—Tony Peters, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2024
These morsels were smooth, consistent, and sweeter than others.
—Catherine Jessee, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for morsel
Noun
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This mouthful of a condition is a chronic type of arthritis that causes spine inflamation.—
Brittany Risher,
SELF,
8 Jan. 2025
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Advertisement Director of the Office of Management and Budget: Russell Vought Behind that bureaucratic mouthful of a title is the most powerful person deciding how the government will spend its $7 trillion-plus annual budget.—
Peter Green,
Quartz,
30 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The floor was covered in paint specks, in the corner was a pile of old paint tubes and smocks.—
Karl Ove Knausgaard,
The New Yorker,
27 Jan. 2025
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Flowers have a white-to-lavender hue with purple specks and invite bumblebees, native bees, and honey bees to the garden.—
Lauren David,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 Jan. 2025
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Lively’s Lily Bloom is a cipher for the millennial woman resisting the pull of becoming her boomer mother.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
13 Jan. 2025
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For decades, Patricia McGlone was a cipher, a ghost.—
Sarah Weinman,
Rolling Stone,
1 Dec. 2024
Noun
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That starts with small bites, including his calas, also known as Creole rice fritters, traditionally a sweet breakfast dish served with cafe au lait.—
Louisa Kung Liu Chu,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Jan. 2025
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And for a pick-me-up before or after the slopes, the Double Blacks cafe on the lower level serves espresso drinks, spiced ciders, fresh croissants, and small bites.—
Denny Lee,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Jan. 2025
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With the best brush for curly hair in your arsenal, every part of your routine—from detangling to DIY blowouts—gets a little bit simpler.—
Erin Parker,
Allure,
25 Jan. 2025
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The problem, of course, is that the bit itself is stuck in one gear.—
Vikram Murthi,
IndieWire,
25 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Tracking insect migration is not as straightforward as tracking birds or mammals.—
Saugat Bolakhe,
JSTOR Daily,
23 Jan. 2025
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The downy also can peck at galls or protrusions on goldenrod plants where insect eggs are lurking.—
Sheryl De Vore,
Chicago Tribune,
21 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Sure, the Oscars love a musical (hello, La La Land) and have shown eclectic taste in the recent past (it’s only been two years since Everything Everywhere All at Once dominated the ceremony).—
Lucy Ford,
TIME,
24 Jan. 2025
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While several products use sweeteners to mellow out the grassy taste, our favorites were the ones that didn’t shy away from earthy flavors or hide behind artificial flavoring.—
Ali Francis,
Bon Appétit,
23 Jan. 2025
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Others less so: Tiny flecks of indium make the screen sensitive to the touch of a finger.—
Vince Beiser,
WIRED,
30 Nov. 2024
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And in the very center of the panel, in flat, dark country, in literal no man’s land, is a small, broken vertical line consisting of flecks of white paint.—
Teju Cole,
The New Yorker,
10 Jan. 2025
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“Morsel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/morsel. Accessed 5 Feb. 2025.
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