dwarf
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RXJ0528+2838 is a white dwarf, the leftover core of a dying low-mass star, and it is orbited by a Sun-like companion.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 25, 2026
The survey examined 29 massive stars spread across six local dwarf galaxies.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
“Whatever they get into, they just dwarf other countries once they decide to grow it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
"The revenues dwarf what other leagues generate," Watkins said.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Taran was sure the angry dwarf would have climbed into the tree itself had the opening in the trunk been larger.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
A new superpower is about to enter the fray, one that is unknowable and unending and potentially dwarfs the U.S. and China individually or collectively.
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
Similar effects already help stabilize dense objects such as white dwarfs and neutron stars and can reproduce the inflationary expansion phase.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Still, he simply had to ensure that Eitri and Brokk lost the contest; the gods would still get six wonderful things from the dwarfs, and Sif would get her golden hair.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
It dwarves the revenues of a team from the other top five leagues.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
Named Erebor, after the mountain where the dwarves stored their treasure and which the dragon took over in J.R.R Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” that new bank won a preliminary regulatory approval Wednesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
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
In his estimation, it may be enough that it exists to contradict future generations' misguided aggressors from claiming his heroes – elves, dwarves and men led by Aragorn, son of Arathorn, represented them.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2023
Three dwarves came out of different rooms where they had been busy.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Manchester City, once seen as the noisy neighbor dwarfed by Manchester United, had combined financial might with tactical brilliance to turn the established order on its head.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
It is dwarfed by the passenger ferries in the background.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
While Irish farmers did export some food to Britain, "it was dwarfed by the amount being brought in for distribution by the UK government", he added.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Tuesday, for example, saw roughly $280 million of turnover in the U.S. but this was dwarfed by Wednesday’s volume in Korea where around $8.5 billion of shares changed hands.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
He listened with his eyes closed as five of the football players lip-synced to a rap song, to thunderous applause that dwarfed his own.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
The old computer-software index showed prices rising at a record 17% yearly pace, dwarfing any prior increase.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
After all, the value of the U.S. stock market is close to $80 trillion, dwarfing the changes in issuance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 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
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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