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On the picture’s lower left lie three tools of the engraver’s trade: two burins, for making large designs, and an etching needle for smaller ones.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

By the end of 2025, the agency’s head count was roughly one-quarter smaller than it had been at the start of the year, according to one count.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026

Most previous studies of fire whirls have been conducted on a much smaller scale in laboratory settings.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2026

Thus cleansed of expectation, you move through a series of smaller, even intimate spaces in which you are given free access to a literal universe of biological data.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Below the pin was a smaller name tag, this one Sharpie on plastic: Joyce, she/her.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith