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dime store

noun as in retail store selling inexpensive goods

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One is a treatise on physics disguised as a restlessly plotted dime store detective novel; the other a coda in the form of a series of transcribed conversations between psychiatrist and patient, again delving into McCarthy's almost spiritual affinity for math and physics.

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Or you find these weird, mass-produced Art Nouveau statues that would have been sold at the dime store.

And stop subjecting the readers of this fine newspaper to his bitterness and dime store psychiatry.

The McCrory’s Five and Dime store made an ice cream soda that was so good that the Jim Crow lunch counter “hardly registered” to the young Reed.

Charlotte Smith was raised in the small town of Borger, Texas, by parents who ran a five and dime store, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday.

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

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