smallish
Example Sentences
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“It’s a smallish club and it does get really cliquey,” said Pamela Andres, a former general manager at SYC who quit in 2022, stressed out over member misbehavior.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
A smallish example is water companies in the United Kingdom, where years of strong performance masked budding problems with pollution and customer dissatisfaction.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025
While the £700m-£1bn a year it raises in the UK is smallish beer, since the UK and France introduced a hit to big tech's revenues, many other countries have followed suit.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2025
In a typical play on words, she conjured up a term for these smallish storage vessels that suggest sly little narratives: “Story-age.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
I remember thinking that he probably loved me in his own smallish way.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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