as in damn
the smallest amount or part imaginable
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Recent Examples of syllable
Kendrick’s fluttering syllables and a jittery bassline bounce like a slinky’s recoil.
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Peter A. Berry, Variety, 24 Nov. 2024
The four words were first spoken here on a bright spring afternoon at Camelback Ranch, my astonished syllables joining similar tones of amazement floating from every corner of a crowded press box.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
My hack for Maya is to add one or two syllables to a word everyone knows how to say.
—Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
Every single syllable, her emotional vocals capture the pain and culture, but her messages of resilience, of hope and light are a pathway towards healing.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 20 Oct. 2024
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Peter A. Berry, Variety, 24 Nov. 2024
The four words were first spoken here on a bright spring afternoon at Camelback Ranch, my astonished syllables joining similar tones of amazement floating from every corner of a crowded press box.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
My hack for Maya is to add one or two syllables to a word everyone knows how to say.
—Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2024
Every single syllable, her emotional vocals capture the pain and culture, but her messages of resilience, of hope and light are a pathway towards healing.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 20 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for syllable
Noun
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Shortly thereafter, Facebook changed its name to Meta and sank $45 billion into its vision of a digital universe that most people just don’t seem to give much of a damn about.—
Boone Ashworth,
WIRED,
25 Sep. 2024
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But the rate at which people are ditching cable suggests that carriage fees won’t be worth a tinker’s damn by the time the looming batch of NBA deals expires.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
5 July 2024
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Mathematicians greeted his assertions with hoots of laughter, called out to friends across the room, and threw paper airplanes.—
Erica Klarreich,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Jan. 2025
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Photographed by Ben Weller, British Vogue, January 2025 Marianne Jean-Baptiste is a hoot.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
7 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Most organ players in those days would just play through everything, but Garth would lay back, hit licks, hit horn shots.—
Amanda Petrusich,
The New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2025
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And Rich has never given a rat’s ass about playing all of the great licks.—
Jim Ryan,
Forbes,
23 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The last-minute Annie Oakley act does not alter that one whit.—
The Editors,
National Review,
30 Sep. 2024
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The same wellness warriors who fret about microplastics seem not to care one whit about the breakdown of medical aesthetics.—
Mattie Kahn,
Vogue,
23 July 2024
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As anyone who’s watched an iota of sports programming over the past few years can attest, the betting business doesn’t traffic in subtlety.—
Sean Gregory / Boston,
TIME,
27 Jan. 2025
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He was concerned as a boy that even an iota of doubt could lead him to a different fate, relegating him to an eternity separated from his family, particularly his parents.—
Rick Rojas,
New York Times,
29 Dec. 2024
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“Syllable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syllable. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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