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
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
But by then I was inside the miniature cast-iron royal coach.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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Two miniatures, shown here in blown-up copies, may date from Henry and Anne’s courtship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 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
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
Half-prank, half-pastiche and 100% punk rock, the film’s mishmash aesthetics are due to the many artists who volunteered to build out Drew’s gender-bending Gotham City by any means necessary, from animation to stop-motion to miniatures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2025
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
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Vocabulary lists containing miniature
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 7–11
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