puny
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But unlike that Oscar winner, “Two Prosecutors” has a man of conscience at its center — a confident crusader who becomes increasingly puny in the face of Stalin’s Soviet Union.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
More often, he is a reckoning, reminding us of how puny we are in nature’s schemes.
From Salon • Mar. 20, 2026
Within five years, the firm was looking after $165 billion compared with the puny $20 billion that its departing investors had left behind them on the way out the door at the bubble-market highs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
Some senior Labour figures fret privately that their talk of "missions" and a "Plan for Change" might seem puny to many in comparison with the scale of that challenge.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2025
Harry made a star out of shiny silver cardboard and placed it on top of the tree with no need of a ladder, it was that puny.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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