pittance
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A private real-estate firm has sought to buy Pinnacle’s rent-stabilized apartments in bankruptcy for a pittance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026
Spotify has long been criticized by musicians, songwriters and artists’ rights groups, who have accused the company of paying a pittance to most of the working artists whose songs appear on its platform.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 16, 2025
Months later he return to his home region as a member of the British expedition, paid a daily pittance of just a few Nepali rupee coins.
From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025
The money was a pittance, she says, adding that she used some of it to buy milk and nappies.
From BBC • Jun. 25, 2025
Hale toiled day and night for a pittance; he rode through storms—hail, lightning, sand—and survived stampedes, guiding the cattle into smaller and smaller circles before they could trample him.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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