dwarf
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It will expand into a red giant, shed its outer layers, and eventually become a white dwarf.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
Across a preliminary evening and three “days”—“Das Rheingold,” “Die Walküre,” “Siegfried” and “Götterdämmerung”—the dwarf Alberich renounces love, steals the Rhine’s gold and forges an all-powerful ring that Wotan, ruler of the gods, steals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
The stronger magnetic support allows the white dwarf to hold more mass than would otherwise be possible.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
And while reporters waited to question him on how he would govern when Democrats take control of Congress, Trump kept talking about how the ballroom's classical columns would dwarf those of the US Supreme Court.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
Leo tossed him Piper’s dagger, then kept rummaging through the bags of dwarf shinies.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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Previously discovered debris discs around white dwarfs have shared a recognizable observational signature consistent with a single, flat, rotating disc.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
Giants, dwarfs, a dragon, a magic sword and encircling fire have made the “Ring” easy to parody, yet these fantasy details are not its dramatic essence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
Some well-studied white dwarfs have unexpectedly large radii for their relatively low masses.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
However, the new findings suggest that some exploding white dwarfs could have substantially different masses and internal magnetic fields.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026
He put on his shoes that let him travel through the sky, and he went to Svartalfheim, where the dwarfs have their workshops.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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The inhabitants of Middle-earth—hobbits, dwarves, elves, Black Riders, wizards—come to us with characteristics not common to other species, including our own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Named Erebor, after the mountain where the dwarves stored their treasure and which the dragon took over in J.R.R Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” that new bank won a preliminary regulatory approval Wednesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
There's also a debate over the fate of the seven dwarves, after unofficial images emerged of what have now been billed as seven "magical creatures".
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2023
But for Disa and other dwarves, it's even more interconnected than that.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2022
Bombur was now so fat that he could not move himself from his couch to his chair at table, and it took six young dwarves to lift him.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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The hack—which the researchers say dwarfed any previous incident of its kind—marks a black eye for Binance and the broader crypto industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Burnley's total revenue for 2024-25 was £71.7m, which dwarfed Lincoln's £7.81m.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Manchester City, once seen as the noisy neighbor dwarfed by Manchester United, had combined financial might with tactical brilliance to turn the established order on its head.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
The outbreak in Michigan this year has dwarfed previous outbreaks of the illness in the state, which recorded only about 50 cases of cyclosporiasis in 2025.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Long and leanly muscular, he dwarfed the molded plastic elementary school chair he was sitting in.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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Not just because they towered overhead, the biggest dwarfing a stack of 10 blue whales.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Rejection rates in counties where services were cut doubled or tripled from what they were four years ago, dwarfing any increases in counties where postal pickups remained as they were, our analysis showed.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026
The old computer-software index showed prices rising at a record 17% yearly pace, dwarfing any prior increase.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
There were more than 323 million visits to America’s national parks in 2025, dwarfing attendance — 135 million — at professional football, baseball, basketball and hockey games combined.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
Rishi made the first strokes, his hand dwarfing the stub of charcoal pencil that had obviously been sharpened many, many times.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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