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[dwawrf] / dwɔrf /






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“Whatever they get into, they just dwarf other countries once they decide to grow it.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

And while the resources and player numbers at England dwarf those at many of their rivals, O'Shea rejects the notion that the Red Roses can ever be too strong.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

The story is told by an albino dwarf.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

What remains at the center is an extremely hot stellar core called a white dwarf.

From Science Daily Aug. 12, 2026

Gurgi and the dwarf, who had been standing behind the bard, now rushed in; despite Eilonwy’s protests, they crowded around Taran.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

That his residency now dwarfs, in sheer scale, the fight-night masculinity the same building helped crown is not a coincidence I am willing to let pass quietly.

From Salon Sep. 6, 2026

A production forecast at Cannington of 290,000 tons dwarfs Jefferies’ 206,000-ton estimate, it says.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

“The issue with the U.S. is that the size of the Treasury market dwarfs the combined size of the Japanese, U.K., E.U. and other countries in Asia.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 18, 2026

It is a body of work that dwarfs anything put together by his rivals.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

The dwarfs listened to Skirnir describe the commission, and they shivered, and they named their price.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

It dwarves the revenues of a team from the other top five leagues.

From BBC May 28, 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

Its £169,950 asking price dwarves the £200 her parents paid for it.

From BBC Mar. 21, 2023

It's not only that "The Rings of Power" is set in a high fantasy world of knights, sea worms and singing dwarves, it's that the prequel consistently highlights the achievement and strength of women.

From Salon Oct. 22, 2022

Over the generations, the people of Flores became dwarves.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

It is dwarfed by the passenger ferries in the background.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

While Irish farmers did export some food to Britain, "it was dwarfed by the amount being brought in for distribution by the UK government", he added.

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

But the new supply is still dwarfed by a 400,000-unit deficit of homes in the metropolitan area, according to Zillow.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Issuance in the first half of the year dwarfed the $421 billion raised in the same period last year.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 1, 2026

He felt dwarfed by the enormous redwood and tried not to imagine what would have happened if it had landed on him.

From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret

Tall, gaunt and calculating, Wagoner’s angles had angles, but somehow standing next to her, his pompadour dwarfing her considerable bouffant, it worked.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

While economists view this threshold as largely symbolic, the sheer magnitude is hard to overstate, dwarfing the entire annual output of the U.S. economy.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

The old computer-software index showed prices rising at a record 17% yearly pace, dwarfing any prior increase.

From MarketWatch Jul. 22, 2026

Middleton has spent more than $16 million of his own money on the race so far, dwarfing any of his previous political spending many times over.

From Salon May 23, 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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