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dwarf

[dwawrf] / dwɔrf /






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Whether spreading pigment across the desert floor, choreographing participants into a living drawing or appearing in her own films, Albuquerque brings a human presence into environments whose scale can dwarf it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

As matter streams from the brown dwarf toward the star, it strikes the stellar surface at high speeds, generating an intensely heated region.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

The team also estimated how quickly the brown dwarf is losing material.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

Material leaving the brown dwarf followed trajectories that carried it directly into the star.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

“How did you ever find us?” cried Eilonwy, as the dwarf ripped away her bonds.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

"When we think of stars interacting with planets or brown dwarfs, the picture is always that the star eventually swallows the other thing," says Kevin Burdge, assistant professor of physics at MIT.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

Walmart plans to invest much of its nearly $3 billion in tariff refunds in reducing prices, some analysts said, a figure that dwarfs Kroger’s most recent annual profit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 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

The dwarfs listened to Skirnir describe the commission, and they shivered, and they named their price.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

It dwarves the revenues of a team from the other top five leagues.

From BBC ● May 28, 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

There's also a debate over the fate of the seven dwarves, after unofficial images emerged of what have now been billed as seven "magical creatures".

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2023

But in the following weeks and then years, I saw an entire country buy into that carnivalesque rhetoric, that bandwagon of "dwarves and dancers," as we said at the time, and bring it into government.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2023

But now Frodo often met strange dwarves of far countries, seeking refuge in the West.

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

Last summer their gross transfer spend was £71m which was dwarfed by Manchester, City, Chelsea and Arsenal who were all over £200m while Wolves, who finished bottom last season, were £109m.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 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

The wind was gusting, rolling clouds across the sky; the view was spectacular, the city miniaturized, utterly dwarfed by the chapel.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Dell Technologies soared 16% to $492.20 after the server maker said AI demand had caused its order backlog to almost double to $95 billion by the end of the second quarter, dwarfing Wall Street benchmarks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Tall, gaunt and calculating, Wagoner’s angles had angles, but somehow standing next to her, his pompadour dwarfing her considerable bouffant, it worked.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

The old computer-software index showed prices rising at a record 17% yearly pace, dwarfing any prior increase.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 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

He reached the foot of the stairs and stood there winking, his bulk dwarfing the boy, who was thin as a reed.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw


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