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Recent Examples of small-time
Death Becomes Her tells the darkly comic story of a love triangle between aging actress Madeline, small-time writer Helen Sharp (Jennifer Simard on Broadway, Goldie Hawn in the film), and plastic surgeon Ashton (Christopher Sieber, Bruce Willis).
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Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 22 Nov. 2024
In The Hills of California, Laura Donnelly’s stage mother trades favors with small-time music-industry men for her daughters’ advancement, and then Donnelly steps in to play that same daughter decades later.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
Digital banks, meanwhile, have gone from being small-time disruptors to powerful forces in finance—as reflected by China’s WeBank and Korea’s KakaoBank, which have respectively notched around 400 million and 23 million customers in their respective markets.
—Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Asia, 6 Nov. 2024
But human rights groups believe the real toll to be far greater, with thousands more users and small-time peddlers killed in mysterious circumstances by unknown assailants.
—Reuters, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 22 Nov. 2024
In The Hills of California, Laura Donnelly’s stage mother trades favors with small-time music-industry men for her daughters’ advancement, and then Donnelly steps in to play that same daughter decades later.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Nov. 2024
Digital banks, meanwhile, have gone from being small-time disruptors to powerful forces in finance—as reflected by China’s WeBank and Korea’s KakaoBank, which have respectively notched around 400 million and 23 million customers in their respective markets.
—Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Asia, 6 Nov. 2024
But human rights groups believe the real toll to be far greater, with thousands more users and small-time peddlers killed in mysterious circumstances by unknown assailants.
—Reuters, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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My understanding has always been that the relic trade is loosely tolerated by the powers that be (many of whom have some pretty choice relics of their own), because one of the sneakiest ways authoritarian societies thrive is by letting their subjects get away with petty rebellions.Noel Murray, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2024
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As our profile lays out, the record reveals Billy Wagner as a blustery, bigger-than-life figure who engaged in petty crime and coached his family to do the same.Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 12 Dec. 2024
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The collapse of the energy giant cost thousands of workers their jobs, while millions of investors saw their shares become worthless.Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 3 Dec. 2024
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Investors in a risky pool of Credit Suisse bonds got crushed when Switzerland’s financial regulator ruled the notes were worthless in the wake of the failing bank’s emergency takeover by rival UBS Group AG.Bloomberg, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024
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Trying to nickel-and-dime such an important player could have done more harm than good.Darnell Mayberry, The Athletic, 1 Aug. 2024
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Southwest Airlines, which set itself apart from its nickel-and-dime competitors, will soon scrap its open-seat policy and charge folks for more legroom.Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
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The Brazilian star was expected to be in a one-horse race for the sport's highest indvidual accolade and become the first man from his country to win it since Kaka in 2007.Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
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Each table is decorated with a snowman candle holder to drive the theme home on a one-horse open sleigh.Fritz Hahn, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
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“Small-time.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/small-time. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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