miniature
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The region's Guigang Zoo asked the public for help on Wednesday to find at least 100 animals that had escaped after their enclosures were damaged, including alpacas, miniature pigs, and zebras.
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
Back at Paultons Park the zoo had devised miniature vases designed to keep the stems alive while preventing any newly hatched nymphs from falling into water.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
London said as they walked up to the miniature abode.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
The company’s viewers, weighing 300 pounds, were designed like miniature vaults and some have been operational since the 1930s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
Pinpricks of light speared up from the ground like miniature searchlights guiding us in for a landing.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
Some scenes for the Rocky Horror Picture Show were recorded at the studios in 1974 and Ridley Scott built and shot the miniatures for his Academy Award winning sci-fi thriller Alien there in 1978.
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
Many more eccentric characters appear, such as Tristram’s Uncle Toby, a wounded veteran who loses himself by re-creating former battles with miniatures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
Thanks to a melange of practical effects, matte paintings, miniatures, models and costly, groundbreaking special effects, Donner achieved a superhero movie that looks unlike anything made in the decades since.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2025
The use of the miniatures is so striking, there’s just a strangeness to the movie, a feeling that something’s not quite right.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024
Dabbing at my eyes, I wandered around the office and finally found myself in front of one of the Mughal miniatures.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Vocabulary lists containing miniature
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 7–11
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