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 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.

2. Stephen Innes:

   The Fed backstop and the report of the U.S. Navy shooting down an Iranian drone are providing a modicum of support for oil markets amidst a very bearish landscape.

3. Charles Krauthammer:

   We're not asking a lot of the president. We're simply asking what the French president has, for a modicum of urgency, a modicum of commitment, and it has never been there, it isn't there now, and it's not going to happen between now and the day he leaves office.

4. Latin American:

   There is a modicum of crossover money that didn't expect the situation to deteriorate so quickly and they could exert further technical pressures, it is not a problem Petrobras can solve overnight, but there will be some good opportunities to add.

5. 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.