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As in Shikoku, locals welcomed us as we entered their small towns to engage in hallowed rituals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Between 1 January and 1 September 2026, a total of 16, 513 people crossed the English Channel by small boat from France.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Boss Kuramoto is not blind to the environmental cost of transporting cubes of ice thousands of kilometres across the world, but insisted that small goods like his have a relatively low environmental impact.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
“Large breaking waves can cause injury, wash people off beaches and rocks, and capsize small boats near shore.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
I look about our small camp—Belle and Midnight tied side by side; Father and Caesar, the fire between them, sitting across from each other.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
He noted that learning circus acrobatics and aerial stunts as a teenager gave him the physical agility in the ring to make up for his smaller stature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
That may hinge on whether one of the smaller parties gets over the required threshold of 5%.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Foreign holders already have played a smaller role in the Treasury market ever since their share in the market peaked at nearly 56% in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 6, 2026
The grant has also been a force multiplier for smaller departments.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
The houses got closer together and smaller, then very close and stacked on top of each other.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
"These microbes remind us that even the smallest partners can leave the deepest mark on our history."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
Saturday, though, marked the smallest home crowd at USC since late in the 2018 season, when the Trojans had their worst finish for the program in a quarter century, under former coach Clay Helton.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
Cuts affect both managers and non-managers, and Uber said it plans to fold many of its smallest teams into larger groups, however, the firm has not confirmed the locations most affected by job cuts.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Lake Ontario is the smallest by surface area of the five Great Lakes, which straddle the border between the United States and Canada.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
She was by far the smallest human, and because of her distraction, she did not so much walk forward as stumble, tripping over the uneven earth.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
