diminutive
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Often, these services have diminutive and friendly-sounding names.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Despite the movie’s theoretical scope, its execution is painfully and frustratingly diminutive.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
Paraguay's best players include former Newcastle United forward Miguel Almiron, and diminutive young ball-running midfielder Julio Enciso, who joined French club Strasbourg from Brighton and Hove Albion last summer.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Even then, the diminutive forward looked like a schoolkid thrust into an adult's game and forced to wear a shirt several sizes too big.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
Queen Elizabeth II was eighty-two years old then, diminutive and graceful with a delicate smile and her white hair curled regally away from her forehead.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Miden is a fictional island where “there are no longer any diminutives or pet names,” Raimo writes.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2019
There is no mother’s care for the hatchlings, which will emerge as dark-toned diminutives in about 50 days, facing astronomical odds against survival.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2018
After all, these are people who don’t just refer to Cabinet secretaries and generals by their first names, but by diminutives of their first names.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2015
But again, Harry is part of a more general trend of parents formally registering their offspring with names that used to be regarded as diminutives.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2013
And the world of diminutives closed in again on us.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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