teensy
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A teensy stretch of trading weakness this year—a pause in rip-roaring gains, really—has left the valuation looking ordinary, despite a profit outlook that has no equal in history.
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026
Things seem a teensy bit off in the opulent Long Island manor to which we are introduced at the start of “The Housemaid.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
One can’t look into their hearts and souls, but under the circumstances their arguments seem more than a teensy bit cynical.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2024
But how can something so great, and so greatly feared, become a teensy confection?
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2023
Mom explained that we’d left Phoenix in a teensy bit of a hurry, you know how that goes, and unfortunately, in all the commotion, she forgot to pack stuff like school records and birth certificates.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
This was simulated sediment, imported from France and composed of exactingly milled plastic pellets—teensy, half-millimetre-wide pellets for large grains of sand and even teensier ones to represent finer particles.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019
The animals, which grow to barely over an inch long, are even teensier when born.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2019
The existence of theoretical lane violations is the teensiest gripe in a flea circus of grievances.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2018
“I am the teensiest bit disappointed that my first — but surely not last — visit did not yield a Hawaiian Punch, but maybe if I ask verrrry nicely next time I will get it.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2018
Nothing, from the set design to the wardrobe choices to the teensiest snatches of dialogue, is unplanned or unconsidered.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2014
An exemplary music documentary, this explored both the track's social and political context, and the teensiest details of its making.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2012
It didn’t change their minds even the teensiest bit, though.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
