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[lit-l] / ˈlɪt l /








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Glenn grew up in New Concord, Ohio, a town of little more than 1,000 people at the time, where Steele doubled as principal and civics instructor at the local high school.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

"I fear a little for Newcastle," former Liverpool and England defender Jamie Carragher said on Sky Sports.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

But history shows little relation between a stock’s valuation and its price over the short term.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

The co-founders, meanwhile, will hold 50.1 percent of shareholder voting power through a single special share, leaving investors who buy on the market little say over the company's direction.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

Joey’s little daughter, Cynthia, is only a toddler.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Back in 2022, stocks sold off as investors bet that a recession was more or less guaranteed following a series of jumbo interest-rate hikes by the Federal Reserve.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

I don’t want them to have less fun.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

Singapore also says the reduction, which amounts to less than 2% of its total daily demand, will have little impact on its gas supply.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

That wouldn’t be a crime, even if he did so to make the senator’s re-election less likely.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

I took another sip, this one less tentative, and Luc raised his own glass.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Commercials and, to a lesser extent, music videos, are “definitely keeping the lights on at the moment” at the company while financing for long-form projects takes a dip, he added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

But the hours-long back-and-forth ultimately didn't lead to a clearer answer about what might come next for Clancy - a dismissal of charges, retrial of the same charges, or retrial of lesser charges.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

“If I’m here to merely protect a record,” she said later, “then I’ll pick a lesser opponent.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Faded stars could scrape out a second act in B-movies and lesser studio offerings without losing the prestige of the silver screen.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

If there was a Mount Olympus in the new American republic, all the lesser gods were gathered farther down the slope.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

"You wouldn't think there were that many places to hide but when Ramona was littler, I think she'd been in every cupboard in one of those trailers," says Drew-Honey, now 28.

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024

No surprise there—as the term accelerates toward a contentious finale, the tensions roiling major cases are bound to spill over into littler ones.

From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2024

The Pac-12 has been the runt of the Power Five littler for years now, which helped spur its dissolution.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2023

But we also have littler animals as well.

From Salon ● Feb. 21, 2022

Next to the fireplace was another table, this one littler, with drawers running down one side and one long drawer running ’crost the top.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis

In the third quarter, Palantir closed 64 deals worth at least $10 million and closed total contract value of $2.92 billion, up 6% on a year-over-year basis.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

The bank is expected to join its peers in raising borrowing costs Thursday, with the Fed, ECB and BoJ having each raised rates at least once since start of U.S.-Iran war.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Grocery stores in at least seven European countries saw temperatures in their cold cases soar on Monday, with several confirming they had been hit by a cyberattack similar to one three weeks ago in France.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to expand California’s current Film and Television Tax Credit Program from $750 million to at least $1 billion annually.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2026

At least it would give him some distraction from the abrupt quiet in her absence.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

"We didn't abandon seatbelts because people didn't want to buckle up, and we will not flinch at holding tech companies to account when our littlest citizens are at stake."

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

The littlest Mac has gone viral as a cost-effective way for AI power users to run local large language models that can eat up dozens of gigabytes of RAM, aka memory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

"It's the littlest things that can trigger you. Even cutting a piece of fruit with a knife or seeing blood can be triggering; just normal, mundane things," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025

Caiazzo was part of a research team that in 2021 reported on one with a petite diameter slightly larger than Earth's moon that boasted the greatest mass and littlest size of any known white dwarf.

From Reuters ● Jul. 21, 2023

Her littlest sister, Midge, had fallen in love with a kitten and cried for hours after they’d left the farm.

From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau


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