as in dime
a very small sum of money
trying to start a business on a shoestring
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Recent Examples of shoestring
James Powel, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2024
While Ukraine’s drone industry started from scratch on a shoestring budget, Israel has long been a world leader in the field and their technology reflects this.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Jennifer Epstein, Bloomberg.com, 7 May 2020
In Greater Cincinnati, a mighty, mostly volunteer needle-exchange effort on a shoestring budget started in 2014.
—Terry Demio, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2019
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Noun
It was sold to Lampert, who has kept the brands alive on a shoestring budget.
—James Powel, USA TODAY, 20 Oct. 2024
While Ukraine’s drone industry started from scratch on a shoestring budget, Israel has long been a world leader in the field and their technology reflects this.
—David Hambling, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Adjective
In 2016, the Trump campaign relied on stadium rallies, TV appearances and social media to compensate for its shoestring budget and thin staffing.
—Jennifer Epstein, Bloomberg.com, 7 May 2020
In Greater Cincinnati, a mighty, mostly volunteer needle-exchange effort on a shoestring budget started in 2014.
—Terry Demio, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2019
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On third-and-5 from the 22, Love flung a dime to the back center of the end zone, where Doubs made a spectacular diving catch for his second score of the night to seal the game.Michael-Shawn Dugar, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
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Photo illustration by Becky Harlan/NPR Hangover cures are a dime a dozen.Andee Tagle, NPR, 26 Nov. 2024
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But a few Decembers ago, its branches turned into spindly things where spikes grew instead of leaves.Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
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In a polytunnel on the Scottish island of Bute, thousands of spindly Scots pine seedlings are growing.Alexa Phillips, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2024
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Field pumpkins have a watery, stringy and sometimes bitter taste.Claudia Alexander, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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One thing’s for certain: the future of materials science looks sticky, stringy and pretty spectacular.Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, Fox News, 1 Nov. 2024
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The footage is grainy but effective, though most of the live track is played over still photos from the show, John shirtless under overalls and Lennon lanky and bespectacled.Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
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The lanky left-hander hurled six shutout innings in Game 6 of the 2021 World Series on the night the Atlanta Braves clinched the championship over the Houston Astros.Peter Sblendorio, New York Daily News, 11 Dec. 2024
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Kidman, who’s nearly six feet tall, impossibly willowy, and the precise shade of a scoop of vanilla ice cream, has never been an Everywoman.Alison Willmore, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2024
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But in this room, influencers clamor for a picture with the willowy redhead.Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 20 Nov. 2024
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Chalamet sulks and talks out of the side of his mouth, picking from a grab bag of accents that vary with each scene—all of which are far more reedy and cartoonish than Dylan actually sounded in his younger days.Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 10 Dec. 2024
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He was guided through the motions of the fry station by a reedy, goateed young man, an actual employee, who had been caught up in the candidate’s maudlin cosplay of worker solidarity.E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
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The whole package is great fun, and everything wraps up in a blessedly tight 95 minutes (man, movies are way too long these days).Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2024
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In general, the skin on your feet may feel rough, tight, and hard at times.Francisco J. Rivera Rosario, Health, 22 Dec. 2024
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And because every number is loaded with callbacks and foreshadowings, both musically and lyrically, the rangy story is tied into a very tight thematic bundle.Jesse Green, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2024
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Up for three Grammys at next year’s ceremony — a rangy haul of nods for global music album, R&B song and African Music Performance — Tems is carrying a new era of Nigerian music around the world.August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Shoestring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shoestring. Accessed 29 Dec. 2024.
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