little

They may have little earthly reason to be.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

The late King Oyo was never publicly married, and little is known about his wife or their son.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

He said so much with so little, Iñárritu thought, and that “less is more” thinking could hold so much power in a film poster.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

The company is profitable, and at the last count had little or no net debt.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Eventually, though, she is needed for a much bigger task—nothing little about it.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

AI model developers are increasingly working to make their own chips, putting pressure on industry stalwarts to ensure they can continue to offer better performing and less expensive options.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

"You can do all sorts of different things to your property to make it more or less vulnerable to flood," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

Retail analysts said the duty fees have not only driven up the prices of goods but also caused people to shop less frequently.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

But with “Heart of the Beast” generating a fraction of the response Pitt’s films did even less than a decade ago, it’s evident that his star power has taken a hit.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

By now I was desperate for food but less able to walk than ever.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Iran often hit locations of lesser military significance where nothing significant was located—an indication that Iran didn’t have a clear picture of U.S. bases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Irish boxing is going to be a lesser place.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

Polling shows a majority of people hold unfavorable views of her and, to a lesser extent, Harry.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

"Large objects such as stars curve spacetime strongly -- for example, we can observe this when light rays are deflected by massive stars. But smaller masses also produce spacetime curvature, just to a lesser extent."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

The quarry was on a hillside, not the calm and pleasant Chamundi Hill, but another, lesser hill, bare and rocky, with here and there a few clumps of prickly pear.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

Though Disneyland Park’s littler and much younger sibling, the park has grown into a respectable offering, one that ranks among my favorite Disney parks in North America.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026

"You wouldn't think there were that many places to hide but when Ramona was littler, I think she'd been in every cupboard in one of those trailers," says Drew-Honey, now 28.

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024

No surprise there—as the term accelerates toward a contentious finale, the tensions roiling major cases are bound to spill over into littler ones.

From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2024

Our littler sister city has been careening far ahead of us in grown-up, post-pandemic urban problems.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2023

“Even littler than you, Mattie. So I suspect it will be okay with your mama.”

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

Normally, a car in the barriers on a street circuit means at least a virtual safety car.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

But it was too expensive, with an estimated cost of at least $65 just for the box.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Chances are, Maye won’t be receiving any votes this year — at least not if the first three games are any indication of how the rest of the season will go.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Including the latest deaths, at least 22 people have died this year trying to cross the Channel, according to an AFP tally based on official French and British sources.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

At least she’s dressed and not in her pj’s.

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

The scarcity of Apple’s littlest Mac comes at a time of high interest from AI power users and a potential product refresh.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

"It's the littlest things that can trigger you. Even cutting a piece of fruit with a knife or seeing blood can be triggering; just normal, mundane things," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025

They separate the haves from the have-nots with astonishing pay imbalances we wouldn’t permit even in the littlest leagues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2024

Caiazzo was part of a research team that in 2021 reported on one with a petite diameter slightly larger than Earth's moon that boasted the greatest mass and littlest size of any known white dwarf.

From Reuters ● Jul. 21, 2023

Next time I pass, I Manuel Flores, truster of nobody, most of all not strangers, I lift my hand in the littlest wave, like a tiny small flag.

From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads