wee
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Working into the wee hours of the morning, he has flagged about 7,000 scam profiles, including many funneling applicants to those roles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Open titlist, called the evening “completely insane” and said finding her best tennis in the wee hours of the morning was difficult.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
Enforcement was lackluster, however, and legislative compromise killed a promising assessment to determine whether local Head Start programs were producing learning gains among their wee charges.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Twelve years ago, wee Reuben Ward watched wide-eyed as Dan Keatings won gymnastics gold for Scotland in Glasgow.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Just like the wee mousie in the poem by Mr. Robert Burns, it seemed as if Penelope’s best-laid plans were being thwarted at every turn.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
I niver see a playhouse, but Sammy Mason wint to one i’ London, and he towd me what it were like, and the chutch I went into i’ the City weer just like it.
From Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family by George Manville Fenn
“If I weer much along o’ that Rasp, it would soon come to a row.”
From Dutch the Diver A Man's Mistake by George Manville Fenn
“It weer owd Simmy Slee as made it wuss, wi’ cootting o’ them bands,” said Big Harry.
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
Ofschoon Coen in 1617 aan hem schreef, dat de zaak weer couragieuselijk moest hervat worden, bleek hij er in 1618 niet al te zeer mee ingenomen.
“Ay, lad, they weer made on him i’ the year one, and niver been off since.”
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
“She had the weest, teentiest toes, And the leastest speck of a blackish nose, With great, great eyes”—“Coo, coo! coo, coo!”
From Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad by Daphne Dale
You're sure you've never regretted—never had the weest doubt that it might have been better with—someone else?
From The First Man by Eugene O'Neill
They built, and they presented to me, the weest piano ever you saw—a piano so wee that it could be carried in an ordinary motor car.
From A Minstrel in France by Sir Harry Lauder
They wente up to the Saylis, These yemen all three; They loked est, they loked weest, They myght no man see.
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Frank Sidgwick
To-day is Quentin's birthday and he loved his gifts, perhaps most of all the weest, cunningest live pig you ever saw, presented him by Straus.
From Letters to His Children by Theodore Roosevelt
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