soupcon
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Frank needs a smaller life, one that will allow him to regain a soupcon of his soul and maybe find a piece of his heart.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 9, 2018
In between are dozens that you thought were just OK: An X-Men movie here and there, with a soupcon of Star Trek tossed in.
From Time ● Jul. 26, 2017
That is, they may actually prefer to get their news sprinkled across a social feed, so that it comes packaged with entertainment, interaction, and a soupcon of persona drama.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2015
We’re all only a fraction, a scintilla, a soupcon, if you will, from messing up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2014
It makes rather a good paperweight, imparts a homely soupcon of farmyard life into one's correspondence, you know.
From The Brother of Daphne by Yates, Dornford
The account has gotten widespread attention, in part for mixing its attacks with a soupçon of self-deprecation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
You think Manhattan is a soupçon more representative of middle America than San Francisco?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2025
The desert setting and chomping alien monsters give “The Last Dance” a whiff of “Starship Troopers,” a soupçon of “Tremors,” nodding to those self-consciously campy B-movie creature features of yore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
Its curators seek to “reawaken” these items with a dash of technology and a soupçon of sensory overload: touch, smell and sound.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2024
“I’m mostly pecans. With just a soupçon of maple sugar.”
From "The Season of Styx Malone" by Kekla Magoon
