as in damn
the smallest amount or part imaginable
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For the monks or clerics, it is presented as a material substance, carried like a sack of gold on the demon’s back; the metaphors used are monetary or economic, as though the monks owe ordered syllables to God instead of the monetary tithe their vows of poverty render unnecessary.
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JSTOR Daily, 31 Oct. 2025
Their brains had a smaller N1 response when inner and outer syllables matched (the inner SIS effect).
—New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2025
Such a marvelous collection of syllables.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
So far, the researchers have transcribed about 50 hours of barks into syllables.
—Miriam Fauzia, Boston Herald, 12 Oct. 2025
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But does anyone worth a damn really want to go to Madison right now?—
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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.—
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Cowboy and cowgirl hoots and hollers complement the rumbling of the massive animals’ hooves as they’re rounded up into the corrals.—
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But their annual Christmas dinner was a special hoot.—
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The social media star picked up what appeared to be kangaroo feces on the grass and gave it a lick, much to Irwin's surprise.—
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And all without a lick of spandex.—
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Moreover, Trump cares not a whit about bringing drug traffickers to justice.—
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Miss Keaton…is not a whit like the flustered ingénue she was cast to play.—
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“Syllable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/syllable. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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