as in damn
the smallest amount or part imaginable
I care not a whit about what other people think
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Recent Examples of whit
People can show up with the most expensive gift and care not a whit about you.
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Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 12 Sep. 2023
But equivocation in a country that doesn’t care a whit if Shakespeare is still on the syllabus can easily pass unnoticed.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
The real reason was that the Fed’s most powerful and vocal constituency was, and remains, the banks, which don’t care one whit about people getting thrown out of work.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
These folks have been sweetening lives here since the early 1950s, and the taffy recipe hasn't changed a whit.
—Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
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Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 12 Sep. 2023
But equivocation in a country that doesn’t care a whit if Shakespeare is still on the syllabus can easily pass unnoticed.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
The real reason was that the Fed’s most powerful and vocal constituency was, and remains, the banks, which don’t care one whit about people getting thrown out of work.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
These folks have been sweetening lives here since the early 1950s, and the taffy recipe hasn't changed a whit.
—Tracey Minkin, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
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Shortly thereafter, Facebook changed its name to Meta and sank $45 billion into its vision of a digital universe that most people just don’t seem to give much of a damn about.Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 25 Sep. 2024
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But the rate at which people are ditching cable suggests that carriage fees won’t be worth a tinker’s damn by the time the looming batch of NBA deals expires.Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 5 July 2024
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This tribute to the ill-fitting celebrity guest spots on sitcoms of yore rises to incredible heights of lunacy and requires not a lick of prior knowledge about Little Richard to pull laughs from viewers.Joe Berkowitz, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024
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Because McMillan’s also one of the few collegiate wideouts who’s ever given Hunter a lick of trouble.Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 18 Oct. 2024
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Oldman seems to be having a hoot in the role, too, which has landed him one of the show’s aforementioned Emmy nominations.Brian Grubb, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
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Margaret Qualley, as the former A-lister's younger self, also goes for broke in a film that's a disturbing, hilarious and jaw-dropping hoot.Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
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The story picks up in a military bunker in the Everglades, where the last shreds of humanity have gathered in search of safety.Katie Rife, EW.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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Drone footage shows the roof of the dome being ripped off in shreds, eventually falling away entirely to expose the dome’s supporting structural beams and the interior of the ballpark, from the stadium seating to the outfield.Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 10 Oct. 2024
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“Whit.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whit. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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