miniature
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Wynn’s most memorable ad for Oliver Peoples was a photo of miniature versions of the opticians at the store cobbling together frames among books and newspaper clippings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
A box of gravel, a handful of leaves and a miniature door might not sound like the ingredients for a wedding day drama.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2026
At first glance, the rows of furniture boutiques make downtown High Point, N.C., look like a miniature version of New York’s Madison Avenue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2026
Developed and manufactured through Hesperos, a company co-founded by Hickman, these miniature systems bring different types of human cells together under controlled conditions.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 10, 2026
When it rains in New York, rich people’s dogs wear miniature raincoats and plastic slippers that pinch their paws, and kids giggle and shriek and splash in the puddles.
From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff
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
When Eddie finally put it out to cool, it looked like one of Bel Geddes’ miniatures of a battlefield on a lava bed.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing miniature
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 7–11
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