dwarf
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Instead of allowing material from the companion star to settle into a disc, the magnetic field appears to guide that matter directly onto the white dwarf.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
The AI investment boom is also largely insensitive to borrowing costs, since the money is committed and the expected returns dwarf what a quarter point changes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
“Whatever they get into, they just dwarf other countries once they decide to grow it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
In Cyprus, she discovered a previously unknown species of dwarf elephant and in 1909, while in the Balearics, she discovered the myotragus - an extinct goat-like antelope.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
Judging from the ringing in Leo’s ears, the dwarf had detonated the flash-bang grenade, which Leo had filled with a rare vial of Apollo’s music, pure liquid extract.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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DeepMind says the new Atlas dwarfs it in scale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
That his residency now dwarfs, in sheer scale, the fight-night masculinity the same building helped crown is not a coincidence I am willing to let pass quietly.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
“The issue with the U.S. is that the size of the Treasury market dwarfs the combined size of the Japanese, U.K., E.U. and other countries in Asia.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
It is a body of work that dwarfs anything put together by his rivals.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Thus it was that the dwarfs had the mead of wisdom and poetry, and any person who wished to taste it needed to beg it from the dwarfs.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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Her follower count dwarves DfE's 85,000 followers and Bridget Phillipson's 19,000 followers.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
The Trump administration has greenlighted its first new bank, and it is a startup that takes its name from a mountain where dwarves stored their treasure in J.R.R.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
Here, it was pure joy to watch HORA’s actors embrace their inner hobbits, dwarves, wizards, orcs and elves — including one that yodels!
From New York Times ● May 10, 2024
Its £169,950 asking price dwarves the £200 her parents paid for it.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2023
They were probably following the very track that Gandalf, Bilbo, and the dwarves had used many years before.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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It is dwarfed by the passenger ferries in the background.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Only seven companies have listed in London so far this year, a number dwarfed by the 15 that have de-listed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
The outbreak in Michigan this year has dwarfed previous outbreaks of the illness in the state, which recorded only about 50 cases of cyclosporiasis in 2025.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
But what they found during their searches in 2025 dwarfed their earlier discoveries.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Pollard, his skullcap off, his hair dark with sweat and his head tilted so his good eye focused on the camera, stood behind her, dwarfed by the cup.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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The old computer-software index showed prices rising at a record 17% yearly pace, dwarfing any prior increase.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
There were more than 323 million visits to America’s national parks in 2025, dwarfing attendance — 135 million — at professional football, baseball, basketball and hockey games combined.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
Middleton has spent more than $16 million of his own money on the race so far, dwarfing any of his previous political spending many times over.
From Salon ● May 23, 2026
But we think the business is well positioned, dwarfing any concerns about financing.
From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026
The bustle of the North End was an arresting sight, and in the middle of it all, dwarfing almost every other building around it, stood an enormous structure that seemed completely out of place.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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