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modicum

noun as in bit, small amount

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Example Sentences

I used to rush in, taking on the helper role because it offered warmth and a modicum of love.

The style is funny and cute, and while it offers him a modicum of privacy, it also makes you want to revisit the real thing when the film is over.

This would have been stronger with a modicum of restraint.

From Salon

So the Republican governor has been begging his party's nominees to stop, but because they lack even a modicum of decency, they have kept pushing the weird hoax.

From Salon

This is when black Africans who achieve a modicum of success, whether at home or abroad, find themselves having to support less well-off family members.

From BBC

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

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