smallish

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Where others in the segment are biggish, it is smallish.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

A smallish example is water companies in the United Kingdom, where years of strong performance masked budding problems with pollution and customer dissatisfaction.

From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025

While the £700m-£1bn a year it raises in the UK is smallish beer, since the UK and France introduced a hit to big tech's revenues, many other countries have followed suit.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2025

McCormick finds the smallish, hook-beaked birds by listening for their distinctive calls.

From Seattle Times • May 24, 2024

It felt especially strange to intrude on her great-aunt in such a vulnerable moment, just a smallish lump under a mountain of blankets, only an old kerosene lantern to keep her company.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland