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Marni Jameson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
What leads one to turn over their life to charismatic dime-store shamans?
—Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2023
Then there was the gay disco troupe the Village People’s dime-store cowboy, Randy Jones, who was meant to be read as a tongue-in-cheek archetype (one since referenced by musicians like Lil Nas X and Orville Peck).
—Evan Moffitt, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 25 Feb. 2024
Then Bur-lers Variety, another local dime store chain that’s now down to a lone store in Warren.
—John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 25 Feb. 2024
One with a dime store, perhaps?
—Anna Shechtman, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
And stop subjecting the readers of this fine newspaper to his bitterness and dime store psychiatry.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2023
Goodluck will play Billy Crow, a young Cherokee man with an affinity for dime store books and gaudy style.
—Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2023
Our stories have been shaped by someone else, from the dime store novels, to comic books, to TV and film, to cartoons; it’s always been through someone else’s lens.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2022
Wheel about a half hour north to adorable, 160-year old Bridgeport, with its colorful, wooden facades and dime store-style candy shops.
—Emily Pennington, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2022
Many of the ornaments are made of glass with a method that was developed in Lauscha, Germany, in the 1850s and brought to the United States by the dime store tycoon F.W. Woolworth around 1880.
—Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2022
Adjective
Ask how many grocery bags, empty jars or dime-store flower vases one household needs.
—Marni Jameson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
What leads one to turn over their life to charismatic dime-store shamans?
—Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2023
Then there was the gay disco troupe the Village People’s dime-store cowboy, Randy Jones, who was meant to be read as a tongue-in-cheek archetype (one since referenced by musicians like Lil Nas X and Orville Peck).
—Evan Moffitt, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
Noun
Unlike almost all the other dime stores in the country, which obsolesced their way out of business, Springrove is still thriving.
—John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 25 Feb. 2024
Then Bur-lers Variety, another local dime store chain that’s now down to a lone store in Warren.
—John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 25 Feb. 2024
One with a dime store, perhaps?
—Anna Shechtman, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
And stop subjecting the readers of this fine newspaper to his bitterness and dime store psychiatry.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2023
Goodluck will play Billy Crow, a young Cherokee man with an affinity for dime store books and gaudy style.
—Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2023
Our stories have been shaped by someone else, from the dime store novels, to comic books, to TV and film, to cartoons; it’s always been through someone else’s lens.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2022
Wheel about a half hour north to adorable, 160-year old Bridgeport, with its colorful, wooden facades and dime store-style candy shops.
—Emily Pennington, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Feb. 2022
Many of the ornaments are made of glass with a method that was developed in Lauscha, Germany, in the 1850s and brought to the United States by the dime store tycoon F.W. Woolworth around 1880.
—Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2022
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“Dime-store.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dime-store. Accessed 20 Apr. 2024.
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