dwarfed

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The material consequences of someone else’s smoke getting into your lungs are dwarfed by the social consequences of public smoking looking cool and inspiring more smokers.

From Slate • May 15, 2026

That dwarfed the $11.4 billion in commitments related to Nvidia’s many investments, and represented an 89% jump in just three months’ time.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

Around 6,000 people attended events in the festival's first year, a figure dwarfed now by the numbers of people set to enjoy the May bank holiday weekend music.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

Yet that net loss is dwarfed by the more than 7,000 companies founded in California during that time, according to the Public Policy Institute.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026

The explosion of technology since the Industrial Revolution impresses us today, but the medieval explosion was equally impressive compared with that of the Bronze Age, which in turn dwarfed that of the Upper Paleolithic.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond