miniature
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These miniature models allow scientists to investigate aspects of brain biology that can be difficult to study directly in humans.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Uddin's photographs explore the miniature world of slime moulds, organisms that can be barely visible to the naked eye and whose fruiting structures are just one to two millimetres high.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
The couple owned a miniature Australian Shepherd named Pip.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026
In one food group I follow, posts about AI restaurant marketing increasingly read like miniature boycott pledges.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
An hour or two sufficed to sketch my own portrait in crayons; and in less than a fortnight I had completed an ivory miniature of an imaginary Blanche Ingram.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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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
The two accompanied one another as they walked through bookcases filled with leather-bound volumes, before inspecting some of the miniatures made especially for the world's largest dollhouse.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2025
Thanks to a melange of practical effects, matte paintings, miniatures, models and costly, groundbreaking special effects, Donner achieved a superhero movie that looks unlike anything made in the decades since.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2025
An even more radical rejection of complexity can be heard in the piano miniatures of Erik Satie, Faure’s eccentric, half-English contemporary.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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Vocabulary lists containing miniature
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 7–11
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