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“Even a little bit can help,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
The positive development in the five-month Middle East war did little to support Asian equities, with tech chipmakers SK hynix and Samsung dragging South Korea's Kospi down after Friday's record-breaking rally.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Former Athena teachers who spoke to Panorama said they were forced to uphold the strict rules by the trust and that some made little sense.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
“Friday it started picking up a little bit,” Friedman said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Sancho, on Don Quixote's orders, gave the driver and the lion keeper a little money to make up for the delay.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
The earthquake was centered less than a mile from from Gardena, Inglewood and Westmont.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
That makes the Japanese currency less attractive to international investors.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
Most Langhe Nebbiolo wines are aged less than a year, allowing makers to use grapes from younger vineyards or difficult vintages.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Scientists initially classified the object as a supernova remnant, but that interpretation became less certain after emissions above 100 TeV were detected.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
I want to tell her Calvin is the only one who needs to think of himself less, but she leaves me with a look that’s so .
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Still, the director’s contributions for the most part supported the underlying emotional drama, which, in lesser musical and theatrical hands, can be flattened into an evening of empty display.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
The bulk of the money has been raised in the United States, and to a lesser degree in China.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
“Then he has a fighting chance to work his way back. Trying to do everything — even at a lesser dosage — just wasn’t feasible.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
To greater or lesser degrees Burnham has floated more "public control", cost of living support, small business rates relief, and higher infrastructure investment and higher defence spending.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
There the white Snowbourn, joined by the lesser stream, went rushing, fuming on the stones, down to Edoras and the green hills and the plains.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
"You wouldn't think there were that many places to hide but when Ramona was littler, I think she'd been in every cupboard in one of those trailers," says Drew-Honey, now 28.
From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024
No surprise there—as the term accelerates toward a contentious finale, the tensions roiling major cases are bound to spill over into littler ones.
From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2024
When it was time to make decisions, Greenlee consulted her littler sister, a tall and bright-eyed 14-year-old, who’s in her high school’s baking club.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 31, 2022
The show amps the creep factor by having the actor who plays Laena look much smaller than Laena's allegedly 12 years with the mannerisms and reactions of a child quite a bit littler.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2022
But it did seem like his enthusiasm for the whole show was getting littler and littler.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
Ideally, clubs aim to work at least one window ahead, with one senior Premier League recruitment executive insisting anything else is "reactionary".
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
The EU also wants at least a third of this protected land to fall under “strict protection,” which means it will be left “essentially undisturbed from human pressures and threats,” according to European Commission guidance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
A heatwave day is defined as one with a maximum temperature of at least 33C.
From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026
Another week, another Big Tech company putting up unusually large profit growth thanks to artificial-intelligence developer Anthropic — at least on paper.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
His movements are stiff and awkward, to say the least.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
The littlest Mac has gone viral as a cost-effective way for AI power users to run local large language models that can eat up dozens of gigabytes of RAM, aka memory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
"It's the littlest things that can trigger you. Even cutting a piece of fruit with a knife or seeing blood can be triggering; just normal, mundane things," she said.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025
They separate the haves from the have-nots with astonishing pay imbalances we wouldn’t permit even in the littlest leagues.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2024
Caiazzo was part of a research team that in 2021 reported on one with a petite diameter slightly larger than Earth's moon that boasted the greatest mass and littlest size of any known white dwarf.
From Reuters ● Jul. 21, 2023
Their mother pointed to the littlest of them and said, “Esmeralda, the youngest. This is Irela, Pascual, and Juan. Elvio is your age, Lupita. Catarina is eleven.”
From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty
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