miniature
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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
The crossing is classed as a "user-worked crossing with miniature stop lights" and has a risk rating of B4, which Network Rail categorises as having a "high individual risk" and a "very high collective risk".
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
He was instrumental in doing the stop-motion miniature chess scene in “Star Wars: A New Hope,” bringing the Imperial Walkers to life and creating aliens like Jabba the Hutt and tauntauns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
He liked comic books, Pop art, collage, landscape, the miniature worlds of Joseph Cornell boxes: virtually anything modest and surprising, even self-effacing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Aru and Mini stepped back as the seven miniature versions of Chitrigupta jumped onto him and disappeared.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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
Two miniatures, shown here in blown-up copies, may date from Henry and Anne’s courtship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 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
“If I had a passion for doors,” he said, “or gilded clocks, or miniatures; if I wanted a Turkish corner of my own, I would very likely regard Hill House as a fairyland of beauty.”
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
Vocabulary lists containing miniature
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 7–11
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