puny

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Within five years, the firm was looking after $165 billion compared with the puny $20 billion that its departing investors had left behind them on the way out the door at the bubble-market highs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Climate change is what philosopher Timothy Morton calls a hyperobject: something that so massively occupies space and time that our puny primate brains have trouble fathoming them.

From Salon • Dec. 31, 2025

Some senior Labour figures fret privately that their talk of "missions" and a "Plan for Change" might seem puny to many in comparison with the scale of that challenge.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2025

The park is a puny nine square miles and offered P-22 no mating opportunities.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2024

He lay on the cold floor sobbing; but really he was pushing forward with his puny strength against a world too big and too strong for him.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright