diminutive
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Hundreds of thousands of tourists a year flock to viewing areas and boardwalks to watch the diminutive sea birds waddle ashore and along the beach in the evenings on the eastern coast's Phillip Island.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
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
His growth spurt was something to see, from a diminutive attacker to a beast at 6ft 4in.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
The diminutive figure before them unhooked a contraption from around its shoulders and lifted a full-face helmet from a definitely nonhuman head.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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
After her defiance of the overseer, they called her Harriet, because the pet names, the diminutives, were no longer fitting for a girl who had displayed such courage.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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