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little

[lit-l] / ˈlɪt l /








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You can establish that the blueberries in your refrigerator haven’t been recalled, but this tells you remarkably little about the blueberries you’ll purchase next Thursday.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

Individual investors and second-home buyers accounted for 1 in 5 home purchases in September — the highest share in a little over a year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

In 2007, Clarkson went a little bit country and picked up a relatively modest Nashville home.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

“It was just a small group for so long, and I actually think maybe it being out there, everyone can help me understand what I went through a little bit.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

She has very few belongings, but she has managed to keep her little doll Ah Choo through it all.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Erika Kirk’s message is less overtly political than that of her late husband.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

The decision to sell comes after the couple’s eight children reached adulthood, leaving Love and Piesen with considerably less need for such an expansive family residence.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

This would imply higher term premia, the Treasury curve steeper than historical relationships would suggest, and flight-to-quality flows less pronounced than they have been in the past, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

It’s less important what time of day you take it and more important to be consistent so your muscles stay well-saturated.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

On it sits is a drawing that feels less intimate, purely technical in nature.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

Both have been shown unable to triumph over far lesser powers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

Faded stars could scrape out a second act in B-movies and lesser studio offerings without losing the prestige of the silver screen.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

Rather than rebuild against lesser opposition following May's punishing defeat, Wardley gambled on an immediate rematch with one of the division's most destructive punchers.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Policy wonks are not typically famous: If they are, that fame is restricted to a league of Beltway professionals—famous in the way that really good brain surgeons are famous to other, presumably lesser brain surgeons.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

The question of whether the museum has acquired one of his lesser known masterpieces still awaits a final answer.”

From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg

"You wouldn't think there were that many places to hide but when Ramona was littler, I think she'd been in every cupboard in one of those trailers," says Drew-Honey, now 28.

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024

The new paper adds an additional seven dark comets to the list, including bigger ones that inhabit the outer solar system and littler ones that remain in the inner solar system.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2024

No surprise there—as the term accelerates toward a contentious finale, the tensions roiling major cases are bound to spill over into littler ones.

From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2024

The Pac-12 has been the runt of the Power Five littler for years now, which helped spur its dissolution.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2023

Behind that was a still littler barn, which looked queer in Pennsylvania where barns were usually ten times bigger than their houses.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen

The chip sector’s worst losing streak in more than 20 years could finally come to an end Monday as the AI selloff looks to be at least on pause.

From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026

Seniors are now the fastest-growing group of renters, rising by 30% between 2013 and 2023, at least according to this U.S.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026

“We now know the recipe for both creating good physical qubits and error-correcting them in a scalable way using the least number of physical qubits to create a logical qubit.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Indeed, the world now faces another apparent contradiction, or at least a historical irony.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

We were issued ration cards too, but at least that first year, the coupons represented food and merchandise actually available in the stores.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

"We didn't abandon seatbelts because people didn't want to buckle up, and we will not flinch at holding tech companies to account when our littlest citizens are at stake."

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

The scarcity of Apple’s littlest Mac comes at a time of high interest from AI power users and a potential product refresh.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Charton, a contributor for the Financial Times, has not yet publicly addressed the arrival of their littlest one.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025

"It's the littlest things that can trigger you. Even cutting a piece of fruit with a knife or seeing blood can be triggering; just normal, mundane things," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2025

But when those lucky few show up every morning, Anatole lines them up, littlest to biggest.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver


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