diminutive
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Guardiola utilised diminutive Argentina midfielder Javier Mascherano as a central defender at Barcelona, then transformed Bayern Munich's outstanding right-back Phillip Lahm into an equally effective holding midfield player.
From BBC • May 18, 2026
The diminutive works gathered here show that a poverty of space doesn’t impede an artist’s ability to elicit a big response.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026
But the diminutive man’s plainspoken demeanor failed to gain traction with California voters — a 1991 Times profile deemed him “the unknown senator.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
The diminutive southpaw came out of retirement last year.
From Barron's • Feb. 23, 2026
He addressed me as Mosiek, the diminutive for Moshe.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
Vocabulary lists containing diminutive
Metamorphosis
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The Glass Castle
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It's the Little Things: Synonyms for "Small"
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