Synonyms for modicum
ˈmɒd ɪ kəmmod·icum

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1. modicumnoun

   Synonyms:
   tittle, jot, iota

Princeton's WordNet

1. modicumnoun

   a small or moderate or token amount

   "England still expects a modicum of eccentricity in its artists"- Ian Jack

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1. • Small Indefinite Quantity

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1. modicumnoun

   Synonyms:
   pittance, fragment, trifle, small allowance, small portion

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1. List of paraphrases for "modicum":

   minimum, glimmer

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1. United Auto Workers:

   This a great victory for workers who have the courage to join together and organize in a system that is currently stacked heavily in favor of employers like Tesla who have no qualms about violating the law, while we celebrate the justice in today's ruling by an increasingly pro-worker The NLRB, it also nevertheless highlights the substantial flaws in U.S. labor law. Here is a company that clearly took numerous aggressive and unlawful steps to block workers' rights, and yet it is more than four years down the road before workers see a modicum of justice.

2. Philip Blancato:

   This is a normal garden variety correction, with levels that set the playing field a little bit, the reality is that the energy sector continues to be a catalyst for concern. So for today's market, if oil gives us any modicum of stabilization, I think the overall market could be relatively flat to up today.

3. Stephen Innes:

   Next week U.S.-China trade talks remain the unknown variable which could lend a modicum of support.

4. Davis Gates:

   This agreement is the only modicum of safety that is available for anyone that steps foot into Chicago Public Schools.

5. United States:

   Missile Defense Review states that North Korea has yet to achieve the capability to credibly threaten the United States homeland. North Korea has not conducted enough tests to establish confidence in a reliable, working missile. But we have to assume that North Korea has a nuclear-armed ICBM that could strike the United States, even if the missile only have a 50 % chance of hitting a major United States city, that's enough to establish a modicum of deterrence.