Recent Examples on the WebIn all of 2020 and 2021, the bonds paid 0.2% a year on average, giving Harry a piddling $6,000 annually.—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 7 May 2024 The piddling contributions were a protest of a campus culture that, in the eyes of critics, had restricted political speech while giving free rein to anti-Semitism.—Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024 The Irish ranked 110th in sacks per game coming into Saturday, a piddling average of 1.57 sacks per game.—Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2023 But this is not such a piddling gift, according to a new paper, which proposes that these electrons react with the moon’s surface to create water.—Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023 And piddling battery life is another perennial complaint with smartwatches.—Victoria Song, The Verge, 31 July 2023 Despite a piddling 22-mile electric range and not-great gasoline-only fuel economy, the Wrangler 4xe is the bestselling PHEV in the United States.—Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 28 June 2023 Canoo’s piddling 4,500 EV van order means nothing if the company can’t deliver.—IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2023 Fiber offers a piddling two calories because enzymes in the human digestive tract have great difficulty chopping it up into smaller molecules.—Rob Dunn, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2013
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