diminutive
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In the picture, Mahmoud sits on the floor flanked by the soldiers, looking diminutive, younger than his 22 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026
Hundreds of thousands of tourists a year flock to viewing areas and boardwalks to watch the diminutive sea birds waddle ashore and along the beach in the evenings on the eastern coast's Phillip Island.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Despite the movie’s theoretical scope, its execution is painfully and frustratingly diminutive.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
Then, among the ashen-faced men, a diminutive figure rose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Why did he focus all his skill and imagination on this diminutive portrait of a wife and mother?
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
Miden is a fictional island where “there are no longer any diminutives or pet names,” Raimo writes.
From New York Times ● Oct. 1, 2019
There is no mother’s care for the hatchlings, which will emerge as dark-toned diminutives in about 50 days, facing astronomical odds against survival.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2018
I am currently houndless, but my devotion to the diminutives has not diminished.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2018
Looking back over any chart of British naming trends and you'll see there's been a mania for diminutives in the past two decades.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2013
And the world of diminutives closed in again on us.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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