as in second-class
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Recent Examples of two-bit
The genre-bender, about a two-bit criminal loser who stumbles upon his superpowers and learns to care about humanity, became Italy’s 2016 sleeper hit, pulling in 1 million admissions locally before launching from dozens of festivals and selling widely around the world.
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Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 24 July 2024
Just a speck in the elaborate web of scandal that seized Anaheim city government, to be sure, but a textbook case of how two-bit tyranny can strangle a righteous American Dream.
—Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 10 May 2024
In so doing, the state has taken a wholly worthwhile cause — the cause of individual choice — and sullied it with an unlovely combination of hypocrisy and two-bit protectionism.
—The Editors, National Review, 7 May 2024
This is not a local two-bit show, this is the best of the best of the best.
—Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2024
The 2017 bull market had vaulted crypto into the mainstream, but also given rise to outrageous scams and exposed many of the industry’s leading figures as two-bit hucksters—or worse.
—Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 17 Aug. 2023
Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 24 July 2024
Just a speck in the elaborate web of scandal that seized Anaheim city government, to be sure, but a textbook case of how two-bit tyranny can strangle a righteous American Dream.
—Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 10 May 2024
In so doing, the state has taken a wholly worthwhile cause — the cause of individual choice — and sullied it with an unlovely combination of hypocrisy and two-bit protectionism.
—The Editors, National Review, 7 May 2024
This is not a local two-bit show, this is the best of the best of the best.
—Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2024
The 2017 bull market had vaulted crypto into the mainstream, but also given rise to outrageous scams and exposed many of the industry’s leading figures as two-bit hucksters—or worse.
—Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 17 Aug. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for two-bit
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Catholic women have long complained of second-class status in an institution that reserves the priesthood for men.Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
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There, the 3,000-year-old four-level caste system keeps hundreds of millions of citizens in poverty, and women continue to be treated as second-class citizens.Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 7 Jan. 2025
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But the smoke is still rising, and petty partisanship is a distraction and disservice at the moment, given all that’s been lost, and all the hard work of moving forward.Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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In an era of steadily declining trust in media, the dry formalities of a legal template provide not only an imprimatur of institutional credibility, but also the freedom to go into extreme amounts of detail without seeming petty, tedious or self-indulgent.Eleanor Hawkins, Axios, 9 Jan. 2025
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So don’t expect anything different this December, even if USC manages to blow out some mid-tier Mountain West team in a second-rate bowl matchup.Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2024
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While Holmes won’t be behind the wheel, Hettinger Racing isn’t settling for second-rate talent.Greg Engle, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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But, according to Bob Nightengale of USA Today, this isn't a one-horse race.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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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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In the event that the fire does subsume the broadcast towers, the TV and radio stations would be off the broadcast airwaves until any auxiliary towers elsewhere could be brought online.Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2025
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Some of those stations already have auxiliary towers located elsewhere and could quickly get back on the air, but most likely at lesser power and with a smaller coverage area.Michael Schneider, Variety, 9 Jan. 2025
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Marshon Lattimore and Aaron Glenn: Once upon a time, Lattimore was the star player of Glenn’s secondary in New Orleans — arguably the NFL’s best in the final years of the Sean Payton era.Colton Pouncy, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
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Blue Origin, however, failed to meet its secondary goal of recovering the reusable booster stage of the rocket—which was supposed to land on a barge floating in the Atlantic but was lost during reentry.Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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“Two-bit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/two-bit. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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