dwarf
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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