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It meant that she gets an almost 30% discount on her rent on her tiny, 25 sq m bedsit in the fashionable ward of Setagaya.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
As recently as 2001, when China joined the World Trade Organization, only a tiny elite in China could afford a family car.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
It was, as Crook told Henderson, a homunculus: one of a set of tiny prophets, or magical spirits, who lived in glass jars full of water.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
The Mississippi native, who lives in an antebellum-style mansion in a tiny and heavily white community east of Memphis, has loaned his congressional campaign $1.5 million.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026
Maybe if she is just an innocent pedestrian—a tiny woman, out walking—she won’t raise any eyebrows, she thinks.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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These ultrathin materials, made from just one or a few atomic layers, have been viewed as promising candidates for building even tinier electronic devices.
From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026
“Institutional investors are a tiny share of the market, and a tinier share of the total U.S. housing market. There is not good enough evidence that institutional investors drive up home prices,” he added.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 7, 2026
The bigger issue is that U.S. automakers have tried tinier cars before, and they didn’t take off.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 13, 2025
In person six-month-old Siwar is tinier than any visual image can convey.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2025
He looked even tinier than usual next to Gordo’s ginormous lumbering bulk.
From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older
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"Callan has just missed that threshold by the tiniest of margins, he has fallen between two stools time and again, leaving him to linger in a wasteland," she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
"Keep offering it and they will pick it up and try it. We try to make everyone try everything in our house, even the tiniest bit."
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Lacunar stroke develops when the brain's tiniest blood vessels are damaged by a condition known as small vessel disease.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026
The Slate truck is shorter than a Toyota Corolla, making it the tiniest pickup in America by a long shot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
Then, on second thoughts, she opened the lid just the tiniest fraction so that the creature could breathe.
From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl
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