diminutive
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While Herman was once known only for his massive canvases, today he has learned to appreciate the diminutive in his life and his work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Strouse, 65 years old, said she wasn’t contacted by the AG and didn’t think to reach out to him because she considered the relatively diminutive size of the scholarship irrelevant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Despite the movie’s theoretical scope, its execution is painfully and frustratingly diminutive.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
The one certainty, despite her absence, was always England's diminutive right-hander.
From BBC ● 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
But again, Harry is part of a more general trend of parents formally registering their offspring with names that used to be regarded as diminutives.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2013
Write and define nouns expressing diminutives of the following nouns:—
From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton
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