miniature
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The couple owned a miniature Australian Shepherd named Pip.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
In one food group I follow, posts about AI restaurant marketing increasingly read like miniature boycott pledges.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
Gutting the Etch A Sketch helped Dorfman better understand the intricacies of the tablet so he could recreate it in miniature form.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The sculptor and his workmen look like miniature figures as they work on the 14-meter monument in honor of the pope, who is a Peruvian citizen.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Sparks fly from shooting stars, birds flame and disappear like miniature phoenixes in her hands.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
Turning products like Etch A Sketch, Super Soaker and Hungry Hungry Hippos into working miniatures has made Alan Dorfman a toy tycoon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Conjuring fossils, keepsakes, toys and relics, these nostalgic, tactile miniatures suggest that Duchamp, the consummate iconoclast, may have believed in the aesthetic, transformational power of art after all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
Some scenes for the Rocky Horror Picture Show were recorded at the studios in 1974 and Ridley Scott built and shot the miniatures for his Academy Award winning sci-fi thriller Alien there in 1978.
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
This year, the artist known as Girl Ultra qualifies for the Latin Grammy on the strength of “Blush:” a delicate EP made up of fleeting miniatures, noir impressions of EDM glamour.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2025
Lydia talks at length about Indian carpets and miniatures, Maxine about a college class she’d once taken on Buddhist stupas.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
Vocabulary lists containing miniature
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 7–11
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