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miniature

[min-ee-uh-cher, -choor, min-uh-cher] / ˈmɪn i ə tʃər, -ˌtʃʊər, ˈmɪn ə tʃər /


NOUN
tiny thing
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


Example Sentences

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But we shouldn’t pretend that every whiplash claim is a miniature trial in waiting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

The royal visitors had tea in the Green Room and were brought into the garden to see a newly-expanded beehive, rebuilt in the shape of a miniature White House.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026

The advance points to a new way of building miniature light sources with complex shapes, which could support simpler and more scalable photonic devices for optical communication and quantum technologies.

From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2026

Curator Ingrid Schaffner calls the miniature sculptures by Betye Saar and Takashi Murakami installed on discrete shelves “the house gods” — works that, like the others, “anchor Eileen’s day.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026

Like Aristotle, Wolff imagined that the embryo contained some sort of encrypted information—code—that was not merely a miniature version of a human, but instructions to make a human from scratch.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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