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ounce

noun as in one-sixteenth of a pound/28.35 grams

Strong match

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Bunker, along with his brothers Herbert and Lamar, started buying silver in 1970, when it was $1.94 an ounce.

In 1988 he was jailed for seven months when police in Jersey found half an ounce of cocaine on board his chopper.

I paid $60 for two grams, which translates to $840 an ounce.

And yet, for all his outspoken defense of the Russian government, Rohrabacher has not received an ounce of gratitude from Moscow.

The Sun On Sunday accused Tulisa of subsequently brokering a deal to supply reporters with half an ounce of cocaine.

It is only disposed to require a pretty strong solution of silver, say thirty grains to the ounce of water.

It should not exceed the ounce of tincture: about two drachms may be added after using it for paper.

It was the merest baby—half-an-ounce, perhaps—and it fell from the hook into the herbage some yards from the stream.

One of them gave out fully a quarter of an ounce of purple fluid from the lower part of the fish.

It was a hair-raising problem, too, and called for every ounce of nerve and every particle of skill the boy possessed.

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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ounce, such as: troy, of weight avoirdupois, and uncia.

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

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