miniature
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At the Sunday reception, the couple had their first dance, with Bettina Trump wearing her wedding dress, and ate a five-tier wedding cake topped with a miniature bride and groom.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026
Suzanne, who is "so strong but not overly sentimental", sent her an engraved miniature picture frame out of the blue years later simply thanking Louise for being there when she was needed.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
As the Senegalese engineers assemble their satellite -- wearing hairnets and white gloves as they probe a miniature black box, small enough to be held with one hand -- two destinations have become a priority.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
So does a third Jacobean miniature ascribed to an “ancient original,” now lost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
Because the drone lizard didn’t just carry a miniature microphone.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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To prefer these easily manipulable miniatures, however vivid their colors, to the messy present is a form of evasion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Conjuring fossils, keepsakes, toys and relics, these nostalgic, tactile miniatures suggest that Duchamp, the consummate iconoclast, may have believed in the aesthetic, transformational power of art after all.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 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
"They've always been pushing the boundaries, going into miniatures, paints as well as books, magazines and even digitising their games."
From BBC ● Jan. 18, 2025
By toying with the settings, she took a picture of Warren’s football game, from up in the bleachers, where the players looked like miniatures, the kind you’d see on a train set.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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Vocabulary lists containing miniature
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 7–11
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Stroke of Genius: Words About Painting
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It's the Little Things: Synonyms for "Small"
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