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peanuts

noun as in packing

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noun as in piece of cake

noun as in small change

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That’s peanuts for schools with paltry endowments, but it’s a stiff tax on many great research universities.

In 2015, guidance shifted around peanuts for high-risk kids and expanded two years later.

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"Even the alternatives that people clung to for survival have disappeared," it said, referring to "ambaz", a residue of peanuts after oil has been extracted, which is normally fed to animals.

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“The amount of loss in this case is small peanuts, period,” said Gene Rossi, a former federal prosecutor in eastern Virginia.

On blustery afternoons, my street’s geography sends every scrap of airborne litter to my curb: candy wrappers, Styrofoam peanuts and Trader Joe’s receipts that reveal too much about the neighbors’ taquitos intake.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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