make small

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“Just like clothes, our equipment is back in style,” Arrington said, adding that he’s just trying to use his “God-given sense to see and make small changes to do a little bit better.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

Ackman and his team also may make small “macro” investments with the potential for large payoffs like he successfully did on corporate credit in 2020 and interest rates in 2022.

From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026

Eli Lilly will make small molecular synthetic and peptide medicines at the Huntsville plant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025

"It is quite remarkable that we are now able to take a receptor from barley, make small changes in it, and then nitrogen fixation works again," says Kasper Røjkjær Andersen.

From Science Daily • Dec. 9, 2025

He tried to make small talk, telling the jockey that Bing.Crosby’s hit “Pennies from Heaven” was written in that den by earlier tenants.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand