pocket-size
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Gutberlet recalled friends alerting him to an uptick in Chinese imitations of Kaweco’s pocket-size “Sport” pens for a 10th of the price.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025
After finding the remains, Dwyer used his Garmin InReach — a $400 pocket-size satellite-messaging device — to send an SOS with their exact location to authorities.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2023
Fred Friendly, CBS News president from 1964 to 1966, distributed Klauber's guidelines to his team on pocket-size cards.
From Salon • Jan. 23, 2023
Toward the rear, a hand-built display case is neatly lined with hundreds of maquettes, pocket-size configurations of bent, vibrantly colored sheet metal — a museum in miniature representing decades of proposals, some realized, many not.
From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2023
A diamond knife is a metal object no larger than a small pocket-size pencil sharpener—about an inch long.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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