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This is a column about an investment of less than $1 million by a piddly little pension fund.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

The number of people who watched Sorrentino’s series when it aired on HBO or saw “Conclave” when it was in theaters is piddly compared to the number of Catholics worldwide, a 1.4 billion-strong flock.

From Salon ● May 10, 2025

So the absence of my baseball weekend money is a piddly backwash in the tide of wealth that’s engulfing Florida.

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2023

For our troubles, Equifax offered a piddly $125 and some free credit monitoring.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2022

The city of Madison sprawls between two lakes, Lake Mendota and Lake Monona, and dribbling out of these are other piddly lakes.

From "Walk Two Moons" by Sharon Creech


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