as in damn
the smallest amount or part imaginable
they choose to live modestly and don't seem to give a fig for the trappings of success
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Recent Examples of fig
Seven kinds of figs, the all-summer sweet, the one with black skin and red flesh, the sour one with light skin, the one with green skin and a rectangular seed.
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Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
In my orchard, the Peter’s honey fig tree started producing in about a year and a half.
—Clarence Schmidt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
Urban garden to stop food apartheid Bees hover around the area, taking a particular liking to the garden beds and a fig tree.
—Charlotte Observer, 6 Oct. 2025
From grapes to figs to apples, fruit nail art took over this year.
—Sarah Y. Wu, Glamour, 19 Sep. 2025
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Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
In my orchard, the Peter’s honey fig tree started producing in about a year and a half.
—Clarence Schmidt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
Urban garden to stop food apartheid Bees hover around the area, taking a particular liking to the garden beds and a fig tree.
—Charlotte Observer, 6 Oct. 2025
From grapes to figs to apples, fruit nail art took over this year.
—Sarah Y. Wu, Glamour, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for fig
Noun
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Even for those in the North who didn’t care a damn for the four million held in brutal bondage, or those who wanted a soft, conciliatory approach, the war began to take on new and moral meaning.—
Jack Sheehan
September 4,
Literary Hub,
4 Sep. 2025
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At the start, the project required building a damn to drain the water from the facade.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Who knows — this one might, in tiny increments, one acoustic guitar lick or exhortation to live fully at a time.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
24 Oct. 2025
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While Kendrick and Drake were putting their pens to their limits, Metro fired up some software and got his licks in.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Miss Keaton…is not a whit like the flustered ingénue she was cast to play.—
Chris Morris,
Variety,
11 Oct. 2025
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The whit and the whoo are from different owls.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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There are hoots and hollers from raucous tourists on Bourbon Street, for example.—
Matt Alderton,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
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There are a few hoots and hollers as the others agree or protest.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Fig.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fig. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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