puny
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Puny mountains would have slowed erosion of the planet’s rocks, limiting the supply of life-giving nutrients for creatures in the oceans.
From National Geographic • Feb. 11, 2021
“My father died beside trees on iron rails,” Toews wrote in “All My Puny Sorrows.”
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2019
In “All My Puny Sorrows,” Marj is Elfrieda Von Riesen, a celebrated classical pianist, and Toews is Yoli, a young-adult writer who is struggling to finish a literary novel.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 18, 2019
The greatness in "All My Puny Sorrows" comes from Toews' ability to make the reader want to think about that too.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2014
He was a very Puny Man, yet he had often done things beyond the strength of a Giant.
From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Mather, Cotton
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