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teensy

[teen-see] / ˈtin si /


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The victim: a teensy black and white kitten named Suki.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

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

She handed me a teensy, pink-and-green Lady Apple that looked like a toy and tasted like Smarties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

Pet stores stock many of the supplies needed to do this—but they also sell teensy enclosures that they claim your crab “will feel perfectly at home in.”

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2025

Mom explained that we’d left Phoenix in a teensy bit of a hurry, you know how that goes, and unfortunately, in all the commotion, she forgot to pack stuff like school records and birth certificates.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

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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