(n.) A delicate or tender piece of anything eatable; a delicious morsel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unlike Indian officials, who have slipped anonymous tidbits and soundbites to the news agencies, RIM has remained tight-lipped about its negotiations.
(2) Cliches are often useful tidbits of wisdom imparted too often to have any remaining emotional impact: “live every day as though it is your last” being a prime example.
(3) But plenty of quirky facts and peculiar tidbits turned up as well.
(4) 4.32pm GMT Here’s a spicy tidbit: The CIA general counsel who filed the crimes report targeting Senate staff is himself a target of sorts of the Senate report on CIA torture.
(5) That's a new freedom – the idea that a story can have long segments and short segments and that you don't have to end each 42-minute segment with a tidbit of the next one because you know that people are going to be watching several in the row.
(6) It is not, fair to say, as it is billed: the reporter – Amy Chozick, on the paper's media business beat – calls up on the off-chance of a revealing interview and, failing that, settles for tidbits from Wendi's chatty friends: "Through a family spokesman, Mrs Murdoch declined to be interviewed for this article, as did other members of the Murdoch family.
(7) But it will provide buyers with tidbits from the film ahead of its release in December, and then reveal more features and personality after the film’s release.
(8) Benjy Sarlin has rounded up 10 tidbits the former governor has to choose from, including "Show us your plan!
(9) Here are some of the tidbits gleaned from our comprehensive look at the cables: • Between 2007 and 2009, annual cables were distributed to "encourage the use of agricultural biotechnology", directing US embassies to "pursue an active biotech agenda".
(10) This is why they fall upon any tidbit of information that might hint at "installed base" eagerly.
(11) 2.30pm: "Here's a tidbit for you," points out Neil Bennun.
(12) Frequently displaced, especially if distortion of the hollow point has occurred, this tidbit of trace evidence is worth recovering and analyzing.
(13) Though the peddlers of memoirs and mid-market newspapers have scavenged every last tidbit from this affair, sensible historians admit knowing little about it.
(14) Read the full report here , including this tidbit: Iran has yet to declare its hand about who should lead Iraq.
(15) This thunderous tidbit was actually the last gasp of an epic Warner Bros panel that featured plenty of surprises on Saturday morning.
(16) The media feeds us small bites of trivial matter, tidbits that don't really concern our lives and don't require thinking.
(17) But the splashy nature of that intrusion – a person or people using the online handle Guccifer 2.0 distributed tidbits from the breach to reporters – revealed a second intruder, codenamed Cozy Bear by ThreatConnect.
(18) 9.53pm BST The Atlantic's Jordan Weissmann picks out what he thinks is "the saddest paragraph" in all today's coverage of the government shutdown: But so far, nothing I've read about the government shutdown has been nearly as gut-wrenching as this tidbit from The Wall Street Journal (paywall): "At the National Institutes of Health, nearly three-quarters of the staff was furloughed.
(19) 9.03pm BST Cardinals 0 - Pirates 0, bottom of the 4th Behind the scenes tidbit: I've spent the last inning trying to find any workable photos to show some in-game action and then I realized that there hasn't been any in-game action.
(20) Their fourth release, Random Access Memories , is the most hysterically anticipated record in years: every tidbit disseminated online over the past two months has been scrutinised like a fragment of the true cross.
Titbit
Definition:
(n.) Same as Tidbit.
Example Sentences:
(1) as well as nauseatingly hipster titbits – "They came up with the perfect theme (and coined a new term!
(2) Truly, a titbit with such potential for female anxiety and self-loathing is like an iron filing to the media's magnet.
(3) In its review , the Economis t came up with a useful everyday analogy: high-frequency traders are like "the people who offer you tasty titbits as you enter the supermarket to entice you to buy; but in this case, as you show appreciation for the goods, they race through the aisles to mark the price up before you can get your trolley to the chosen counter".
(4) Fans have become used to titbits about upcoming films being leaked at conventions such as D23 and San Diego's annual Comic Con, though it is rare for Hollywood executives to be booed for failing to come up with the goods.
(5) Listen to the audience Marvel’s imminent big announcement will potentially bring with it even more release dates, and given the recent Spider-Man news , maybe some crossover titbits as well.
(6) The gallery is filled with interesting and sometimes important titbits, but there is little acknowledgment of climate change’s “evil twin”, ocean acidification, nor of the millions of human respiratory casualties caused each year by the combustion of all fossil fuels, nor of the urgent need to couple cessation of carbon extraction with the establishment of clean feasible alternatives, notably, but not exclusively, sun, wind and hydrogen.
(7) But she offers a few titbits pointing to a radical youth.
(8) Most that claimed "Jeremy thinks" and "Jeremy is furious with Vince" turned out to be – so Hunt insisted – exaggerated by Michel or mere recycled titbits confected by Smith to feed the News Corp beast.
(9) Cross-examined by White, she denied a suggestion that she had been in the past, a "habitual serial seller of titbits to the press".
(10) THE (NOT SO) MYSTERIOUS BRISTOL DOWNS LEAGUE "A friend recently hit me with the trivia titbit that Bristol are the city represented at the most levels of the English league system, by virtue of something called the Bristol Downs League, that sits below all other regional leagues," wrote David Whale before Christmas.
(11) He sings along to Arthur Askey's The Christening , which turns into the Beatles' Paperback Writer , and constantly feeds us useless titbits – who knew that David Bowie shaved off his eyebrows because he was so upset that Mott The Hoople wouldn't record a cover of Drive In Saturday , or that in Jamaica Jim Reeves is more of a hero than Bob Marley ?
(12) Her communist sympathies have been fanned almost to the point of fanaticism owing to her upbringing in Rhodesia MI5 continued to monitor Lessing’s movements, speeches and writing, and eagerly passed titbits on to the South African police.
(13) His Yves Saint Laurent first collection was shown to buyers in June, but the rest of us have had to be content with titbits.
(14) William Clark, the diplomatic correspondent, brought titbits from embassy dinners, high tables or episcopal gatherings.
(15) Sampson grasped his opportunity and turned the paper's gossip column into a dazzling showcase of insider titbits.
(16) 2.07pm BST Chelsea team titbits: Frank Lampard, who has been ill this week, and John Terry haven't travelled to Cardiff, Sky Sports News reports.
(17) Cooper says: • Mario Draghi’s Grand Plan: BGC’s ECB watcher, Broker Kevin, fears that only “titbits” will be offered this Thursday and that the challenges of getting an agreement means that we will have to wait longer for the final Grand Plan.
(18) Inspectors have gone round schools asking teachers whether they are homophobes and telling others their school will fail inspection because they're not teaching "anti-terrorism", while Gove's media allies have been fed inflammatory titbits to justify the campaign.
(19) The low protein intake was due to a poor intake of energy as well as a high consumption of refreshing drinks and titbits, both a little nourishment.
(20) "A friend recently hit me with the trivia titbit that Bristol are the city represented at the most levels of the English league system, by virtue of something called the Bristol Downs League, that sits below all other regional leagues," writes David Whale.