as in handful
a small number
we received only a smatter of complaints about the book
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Recent Examples of smatter
Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
Outside a car wash where two people died, a smatter of small bloodstains can still be seen on the white exterior wall.
—Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
The apartment is immaculate—done up in charcoal and silver, with gilded accents and a tasteful smatter of lucite.
—Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 14 Sep. 2018
Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
Glover’s patchwork ethos is smattered across its seven installments.
—WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023
Lee is also now taking a smattering reps at first base as expected entering the spring.
—Michael Shapiro, Chron, 17 Mar. 2023
The movie is smattered with deep focus cinematography, led by the director of photography Jomo Fray.
—Omar Sanchez, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2020
During the class, remember to look out at the trees, to the sculptures smattered throughout, to the family of deer that will surely be grazing ahead.
—Zoe Ruffner, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2018
There are eight venues smattered across the small, green city: pre-war Art Nouveau buildings, relics of Soviet modernism, the train station at seaside resort town Jurmala.
—Laura Bannister, Vogue, 17 June 2018
Who’s listening At UCF’s rehearsal hall, the crowd of 50 or so is smattered throughout the seats watching the New Music Ensemble perform pieces written by students.
—Trevor Fraser, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 Apr. 2018
Groping blindly, European and especially British explorers began trying to map this seascape beginning in the late 1500s – leading to a series of small advances, smattered with setbacks and tragedies, over centuries.
—Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2017
Noun
As part of the show, the Design Museum invited artists to create new clock faces; there is also a smatter of Chicago clock history, and recently included, remarkably, the original wooden hands from the Wrigley Building’s clock face, located by Samuelson on eBay.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 6 Oct. 2022
Outside a car wash where two people died, a smatter of small bloodstains can still be seen on the white exterior wall.
—Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
The apartment is immaculate—done up in charcoal and silver, with gilded accents and a tasteful smatter of lucite.
—Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 14 Sep. 2018
Verb
Another version is dotted with oily little pepperoni cups and smattered with hot honey: simple and satisfying.
—Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
Glover’s patchwork ethos is smattered across its seven installments.
—WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023
Lee is also now taking a smattering reps at first base as expected entering the spring.
—Michael Shapiro, Chron, 17 Mar. 2023
The movie is smattered with deep focus cinematography, led by the director of photography Jomo Fray.
—Omar Sanchez, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2020
During the class, remember to look out at the trees, to the sculptures smattered throughout, to the family of deer that will surely be grazing ahead.
—Zoe Ruffner, Vogue, 16 Aug. 2018
There are eight venues smattered across the small, green city: pre-war Art Nouveau buildings, relics of Soviet modernism, the train station at seaside resort town Jurmala.
—Laura Bannister, Vogue, 17 June 2018
Who’s listening At UCF’s rehearsal hall, the crowd of 50 or so is smattered throughout the seats watching the New Music Ensemble perform pieces written by students.
—Trevor Fraser, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 Apr. 2018
Groping blindly, European and especially British explorers began trying to map this seascape beginning in the late 1500s – leading to a series of small advances, smattered with setbacks and tragedies, over centuries.
—Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for smatter
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Next year’s ceremony could be even tougher, given the odd state of the best picture race, which has no clear front-runner and appears likely to be dominated by a handful of film festival favorites.Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
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His best work came in the first handful of minutes in the second period.Harman Dayal, The Athletic, 17 Dec. 2024
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Then comes an electric riff, some pattering drums, more singers.Alex Suskind, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
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For example, someone may not notice a clock ticking in the corner of the room if rain is pattering on the roof.IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 6 Dec. 2016
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Gomez captioned an Instagram carousel showing off her ring, and the happy couple embracing.Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 12 Dec. 2024
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The pair are one of the most high profile couples in American pop culture, and that means one thing and one thing only: there are already a lot of memes about the engagement spreading across social media.Callum Booth, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
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In other words, to blather on about how unremarkable iPhone 16 is compared to the one immediately preceding it completely misses the forest for the trees.Steven Aquino, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
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But who needs to blather on when there is a brisk 90-minute set of lush ‘70s and ‘80s classics to administer?Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 27 Sep. 2024
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But when the disheveled, withdrawn ex-friend shows up in the locker room gibbering about an evil spirit, Sam is mortified, impulsively knocking to the ground the grungy-looking Mason jar that Tamira has been carrying around.Dennis Harvey, Variety, 18 Sep. 2023
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For a while, police interest bent toward a Phud who had been warned he might be eliminated from the program, who had seemed almost exultant about the fire and gibbered gleefully about the media spotlight.New York Times, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
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All of this runs counter to the narrative — popular among Washington’s chattering class — that a young and restive crop of Democrats is clamoring to scrap the seniority system that’s guided the party’s committee-selection process for years.Mike Lillis, The Hill, 16 Dec. 2024
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However, the plethora of Monday night cocktail parties were as ever packed and the famous ‘Booze Alley’ was replete with attendees chattering late into the night (and early into the morning).Jake Kanter, Deadline, 24 Oct. 2024
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In one number, Swinton, who goes glossy-eyed to show the cracks in her high-fashion veneer, poses in a transparent rain slicker while bleating raw, yowling noises that blend with the despairing strings.Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
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Their bleating cry is as much the music of these green mountains as the shrill call of the oystercatchers, the Faroes' noisy national bird.Tim Ecott, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 May 2023
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When Assad and other top government officials vanished from Syria after reportedly resigning and hosting negotiations with rebel groups who started seizing control of the Middle Eastern country last weekend, prominent critics of Trump and his allies trolled Gabbard on social media.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2024
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The Bills social media team trolled those who doubted them in the preseason, posting a montage of experts predicting the Dolphins or Jets as the AFC East winner.Ryan Morik, Fox News, 3 Dec. 2024
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“Smatter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smatter. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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