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There's a ripple of laughter during We Can't Be Friends, meanwhile, when a tiny cluster of the audience screams over the "silence challenge", external that's become a meme during the tour's American leg.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
The options market can be a venue for boom or bust bets, and traders lay down tiny sums that can pay out enormously if their bets prove correct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Against problems of that scale, a $10 student planner is a tiny expense.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Operating under ultracold quantum conditions, the engine was able to use the tiny amount of available heat to repeatedly produce positive work.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
And this, apparently, was what Hesterfowl was inspecting, stopping every so often to peer with a beady eye into a tiny blue vortex.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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These ultrathin materials, made from just one or a few atomic layers, have been viewed as promising candidates for building even tinier electronic devices.
From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026
“Institutional investors are a tiny share of the market, and a tinier share of the total U.S. housing market. There is not good enough evidence that institutional investors drive up home prices,” he added.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 7, 2026
The bigger issue is that U.S. automakers have tried tinier cars before, and they didn’t take off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025
They can walk, hover and the males can even sing love songs to woo mates - all this with a brain that's tinier than a pinhead.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2024
Other than that, all I have is a tiny microphone and an even tinier earpiece.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
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Diamond Light Source - a giant machine, half a kilometre around, that produces X-rays far brighter than the Sun to see the tiniest building blocks of matter.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
Lacunar stroke develops when the brain's tiniest blood vessels are damaged by a condition known as small vessel disease.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
“It’s vibrating all night, trying to get air across both me and my wife with the tiniest fan you’ve ever seen,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The Slate truck is shorter than a Toyota Corolla, making it the tiniest pickup in America by a long shot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
“Yes, restoring that which was once lost. You have done your part, my tiniest of butterflies,” Tonantzin said, turning to me.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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