miniature
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One Instagram Reel shows a film crew capturing a giant wave flattening a model city with the caption, “No CGI. No compositing. Just a hand-built miniature Miami and a 40-foot wave tank.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
A physicist at the University of Birmingham has created a miniature universe in the laboratory that offers a surprising new way to investigate this possibility.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
While McGee has no plans to revive the concept, he has created a miniature replica of the 99 Cents Only Store at the gallery, complete with the store’s iconic blue-and-white floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
With affordable rates for its two nine-hole courses, one 18-hole course, miniature golf course and driving range, the facility is known for being accessible to both beginners and seasoned players.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
With the boards and the boxes like miniature cities?
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
Most of these miniatures and tone poems were inspired by Hopkins’ childhood — his parents, his hometown, the day the circus came.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Some scenes for the Rocky Horror Picture Show were recorded at the studios in 1974 and Ridley Scott built and shot the miniatures for his Academy Award winning sci-fi thriller Alien there in 1978.
From BBC ● May 9, 2026
Many more eccentric characters appear, such as Tristram’s Uncle Toby, a wounded veteran who loses himself by re-creating former battles with miniatures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
In the once-bare space above the bedroom’s mantel, which holds a Louis XVI-style clock, gold-framed pictures and miniatures of family members and friends hang.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026
“Is the lion-bird to sit in my place, Nighthand? And the miniatures to eats my fish?”
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
Vocabulary lists containing miniature
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 7–11
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