dwarfed

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The material consequences of someone else’s smoke getting into your lungs are dwarfed by the social consequences of public smoking looking cool and inspiring more smokers.

From Slate • May 15, 2026

Around 6,000 people attended events in the festival's first year, a figure dwarfed now by the numbers of people set to enjoy the May bank holiday weekend music.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

But, as Greg Obershain and Daniel Rasmussen of Boston asset management firm Verdad point out, whatever struggles private-capital investors will have are likely to be dwarfed by those investing in private equity.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026

Yet that net loss is dwarfed by the more than 7,000 companies founded in California during that time, according to the Public Policy Institute.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

In a comer an old man was boiling hot dogs in a large institutional pot whose size dwarfed the gas range upon which it rested.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole