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“Older debtors are hopeful this passes and it’s a tiny step towards relieving their burden.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
The eight years Darwin spent dismembering these tiny invertebrates at home took up more than 20 pages in Ms. Browne’s old version; they now receive barely four.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
US journalist Evan Gershkovich spent nearly 500 days in a tiny Russian jail cell.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Despite their extraordinary power, these black holes are tiny compared with their host galaxies.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
Clare ran first to the crying kits—those tiny, whiny babies.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
These ultrathin materials, made from just one or a few atomic layers, have been viewed as promising candidates for building even tinier electronic devices.
From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026
“Institutional investors are a tiny share of the market, and a tinier share of the total U.S. housing market. There is not good enough evidence that institutional investors drive up home prices,” he added.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 7, 2026
The bigger issue is that U.S. automakers have tried tinier cars before, and they didn’t take off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025
According to Wepiha, the Oceania panel judge also known as Rush, Gunn's victory in qualifying reflects the size of the “tiny” breaking scene in Australia, and the even tinier public and government support for it.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2024
Its powerful magnetic field, amplified during the collapse, traps charged particles rather as the much tinier magnetic field of Jupiter does.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Diamond Light Source - a giant machine, half a kilometre around, that produces X-rays far brighter than the Sun to see the tiniest building blocks of matter.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Lacunar stroke develops when the brain's tiniest blood vessels are damaged by a condition known as small vessel disease.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
The Slate truck is shorter than a Toyota Corolla, making it the tiniest pickup in America by a long shot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
But the tiniest silver lining of the path he’s taken means I have one more thing to help navigate accepting my voice: an example of what happens when someone retreats into fear and shame.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026
And still the oddest, tiniest rise of anger surfaced when his grandmother talked to his father like that.
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
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