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[tahy-nee] / ˈtaɪ ni /


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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

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

"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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