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little

[lit-l] / ˈlɪt l /








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“Ideally, we’d love to see those scales tip a little bit more, right?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The Dodgers, after falling short of a three-peat in the NLCS, will look a little different next year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

If British oil and gas consumption remains the same, developing the new North Sea fields would have little effect on overall emissions.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

It’s a GA venue that holds a little over 1,000.

From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026

He now has only ninety-five centavos to his name, with little hope of obtaining more.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Others say individuals are less capable of balancing the greater risks of private credit, including steep loan write-downs, fraud and fears about the impact of artificial-intelligence on private-credit-backed software companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

"We're about to ship Muse Charm, which will have gone from concept to a hardware device in people's pockets in less than a year," Zuckerberg said Wednesday.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

But while it has become almost impulsive to at least suggest covering the group tab, nudging friends to pay me back hasn’t gotten any less uncomfortable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

“I would be surprised if we brought on less than 13 gigawatts of compute by the end of next year,” Musk added on SpaceX’s third-quarter earnings call.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

I catch the stray backpack strap with the sole of my decidedly less glamorous sneaker and drag it out of the aisle.

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

Lighthouse said its therapy centers primarily serve patients with acute autism, that it has no minimum required level of therapy, and that it refers about 10% of prospective patients—generally ones with lesser needs—elsewhere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Faded stars could scrape out a second act in B-movies and lesser studio offerings without losing the prestige of the silver screen.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

Rather than rebuild against lesser opposition following May's punishing defeat, Wardley gambled on an immediate rematch with one of the division's most destructive punchers.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Policy wonks are not typically famous: If they are, that fame is restricted to a league of Beltway professionals—famous in the way that really good brain surgeons are famous to other, presumably lesser brain surgeons.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

It was used by patrols or by messengers going swiftly to lesser posts and strongholds north-away, between Cirith Ungol and the narrows of Isenmouthe, the iron jaws of Carach Angren.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

The program included a little bit of everything, and the littler the bits, the better.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2025

"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

Birch said he and his colleagues solved a "geometry problem" regarding how long it would take for the littler rivers to fill the deltas that the Perseverance and Curiosity rovers explored on Mars.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2023

Laura was bathed first, because she was littler than Mary.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Taxes are probably the least of your concerns.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026

The PHP flaws went undetected for at least a decade.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

Burnham has previously indicated he will work there at least once a week, and hosted the Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin in September.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

In September, TikTok agreed to pay Alabama at least $100 million and enact limits for teen users, avoiding a trial over claims related to child safety on the platform.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

At least in the other cell there had been bright bits of clothing: the baroness’ red hat, Frau Mikes’ yellow blouse.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

"We didn't abandon seatbelts because people didn't want to buckle up, and we will not flinch at holding tech companies to account when our littlest citizens are at stake."

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

The littlest Mac has gone viral as a cost-effective way for AI power users to run local large language models that can eat up dozens of gigabytes of RAM, aka memory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

"He always has time to chat with every little one and has the ability to charm even the littlest of children who may be a little shy of a big man in a red suit."

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2024

When the library shoot was delayed, for example, the studio teachers staged an impromptu “pet show” for the littlest kids.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2024

I think of the littlest girl finding Dee, my old doll, in the closet.

From "The Night Diary" by Veera Hiranandani


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