teensy
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A teensy stretch of trading weakness this year—a pause in rip-roaring gains, really—has left the valuation looking ordinary, despite a profit outlook that has no equal in history.
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026
Beguiled by photos of teensy piglets, she chose the runt of the litter—a tiny, shivering nugget for $350.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
“Their biting parts are too weak to penetrate human skin and their venom is designed to kill teensy insects,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2023
But when you’re typing in that little bar that appears at the bottom of Safari, the default web browser on iPhones, the keyboard is a teensy bit different.
From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2023
Island was the hair-and-nails crowd, chaperones, and icky boys with all their macho strutting and unbuttoned shirts and hairy chests with gold chains and teensy gold crucifixes.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
This was simulated sediment, imported from France and composed of exactingly milled plastic pellets—teensy, half-millimetre-wide pellets for large grains of sand and even teensier ones to represent finer particles.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019
The animals, which grow to barely over an inch long, are even teensier when born.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2019
The existence of theoretical lane violations is the teensiest gripe in a flea circus of grievances.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2018
“I am the teensiest bit disappointed that my first — but surely not last — visit did not yield a Hawaiian Punch, but maybe if I ask verrrry nicely next time I will get it.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2018
So if you will indulge me just the teensiest bit more, I propose to reproduce some of my diaries from 1993 to pad out the book.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2014
Nothing, from the set design to the wardrobe choices to the teensiest snatches of dialogue, is unplanned or unconsidered.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2014
It didn’t change their minds even the teensiest bit, though.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
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