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teeny

[tee-nee] / ˈti ni /


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The biggest stocks are mostly the easiest to sell, while teeny stocks are often hard to get out of.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

Those of us who watch all the major films in contention every year sometimes get a teeny tiny bit cross that not all of the people who actually vote do the same.

From BBC Jan. 21, 2026

Researchers at the University of New Mexico analyzed samples of brain tissue from dead people, and found they contained a truly alarming amount of teeny tiny shards and flakes of polyethylene, and other polymers.

From Slate Jan. 14, 2026

Each pack comes with four teeny and tiny apple pies that are made exclusively for TJ’s in Canada using Northern Spy apples.

From Salon Nov. 26, 2025

I tell Heather she should push the fashion envelope just a teeny bit to be an ironic reflection of the 1950s, you know, innocence and apple pie.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

The country’s dozens of teenier, tinier gambling operators face their own huge challenges in finding oxygen.

From Slate Aug. 10, 2024

Some are teenier than standard business cards, others much bigger, and many come in bright colors that seem anything but stodgy.

From Time Magazine Archive

I did the teeniest bit of wire work for a movie called “Tomorrowland.”

From Los Angeles Times May 18, 2021

So I have an oil — May11 Hair Oil — and I put on the teeniest amount.

From New York Times Feb. 2, 2021

If you watch Cuties, you won’t see even the teeniest tiniest glimpse of any of the stuff on that list.

From Slate Oct. 9, 2020

Best cameo: Oh, it was in “Mary Poppins Returns,” and if there’s even the teeniest chance that you might not know about it yet, I’m not going to tell you.

From Seattle Times Jan. 2, 2019

And soon, amid squeals of encouragement from my friends in the Small Pet Department, from the teeniest white mouse to the lumbering chinchilla, I left Pet-O-Rama with high hopes.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney




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