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Sometimes the founders fly in to host, while other times they enlist what they called a small “boots on the ground” team.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
“Q2 results showed a small and statistically insignificant difference in earnings growth between the companies quantifying AI productivity gains this quarter and other S&P 500 companies,” Goldman says.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
So secret, in fact, that just a small circle inside Bank of America is in on the joke.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Researchers at Rice University have found that extremely small wrinkles in graphene can alter how the material behaves electrically.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
The space is small, dimly lit, and about as romantic as going to the dentist.
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
Carman said there are 400 or so hydrogen buses and trucks on the roads, and he has faith in new, smaller production plants and stations eventually opening to serve them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Taiwan has been boosting defence spending for years and acquiring smaller and more nimble weaponry, including drones, to enable its military to wage asymmetric warfare against China.
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
They also had smaller initial dips in performance as they got started, researchers at Rutgers and Cornell universities found.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Some of the bends were squeezed into regions smaller than a billionth of a meter.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
He was still as a statue between me and Dad, trying to make himself smaller.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Cardiff's Sophia Gardens, the smallest of the host grounds, enjoyed record crowds for both its men's and women's Fire teams, drawing 11,796 fans for their fixture against MI London.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Except understand that he’s the smallest brother in his family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
So, even if you were inclined to treat midcaps as a distinct asset class, you’d still need to know whether they are about to outperform or underperform the smallest or largest stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
Optimization culture tries to tell us the opposite story: that even the smallest details matter, and that it can track and measure them for you.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
Inside nestled the smallest hat I had ever seen.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
