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To achieve a similar impact, Johnson appears to be wearing a muscular silicone suit over his 6-foot-5 frame, but the extra padding just makes his head look puny.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

Sticking with puny but potent items: Lego unveiled its Smart Play system, which incorporates bricks stuffed with mini computers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

Climate change is what philosopher Timothy Morton calls a hyperobject: something that so massively occupies space and time that our puny primate brains have trouble fathoming them.

From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2025

That's a contrast to most stadium concerts, where the message is more like: "Look upon me, puny mortals, and be astonished by my divine talents and somewhat improbable physique."

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2025

It was the difference twixt a puny two-day-old calf and a prize thousand-and-a-half-pound bull.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis

Others proposed that the dots represented constellations of a much punier scale: molecules, perhaps the biosignatures of the foreign home world.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 3, 2023

And since, as mentioned before, those set pieces are nothing but CGI-fests, it means that we're shortchanging on the heart of the movie to move to muscle that is much punier than the filmmakers realize.

From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2019

The founder’s grandson Kim Jong-un is a punier figure, politically speaking.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 3, 2015

Their outburst served to make the Nationals' seem even punier than it was.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2010

He could see them in their leather flight jackets, their dark mantles, having just come down from doing things that smaller, punier men could never do, doing things that only gods could do.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

But I am often the puniest person in the room, and it’s getting worse.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2020

It pleases me, though, when I’m in Tucson to drive up Broadway and park the rental just to conduct my insignificant banking in a building that seems to frame and elevate the puniest of transactions.

From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2015

During the 2011-12 regular season, teams committed 19.6 fouls per game, the puniest amount in NBA history.

From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2012

The confluence of balmy temperatures and boring pictures led to the puniest Memorial Day box-office total since 2001, and, as the stats-mashers at Hollywood.com note, the fewest tickets sold since 1993.

From Time ● May 31, 2010

He was the puniest, lankest, and leanest of any we had seen on the hacienda, and his single garment was the dirtiest.

From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by John L. Stephens