smallish

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Where others in the segment are biggish, it is smallish.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

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

Solvang, about 130 miles northwest of Los Angeles, has about 20 hotels and most are smallish and independent.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 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

On the fireplace mantel was a long, smallish box, and from within she removed a long, wooden wick.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack