puny
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Puny and pathetic as Colin appears, he begins to seem like the braver of the two.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 5, 2026
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
In “All My Puny Sorrows,” a woman giving a eulogy is interrupted by her toddler, who opens the urn and scoops the ashes into his mouth.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2019
She is calmer than the thrilling, furious older sister of “A Complicated Kindness,” and more hopeful than the despairing one of “The Flying Troutmans” and “All My Puny Sorrows.”
From The New Yorker • Mar. 18, 2019
Puny rivulets where they begin, these watercourses cut deeper as they run on, until, at the river, they become impassable gulches.
From Burgoyne's Invasion of 1777 With an outline sketch of the American Invasion of Canada, 1775-76. by Drake, Samuel Adams
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