dwarf
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The story is told by an albino dwarf.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
Twenty years on, the big six are signing deals which dwarf that.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
Even a few flowery sentences in “Kitchen Confidential” about lessons learned working at The Dreadnaught dwarf “Tony” in comparison.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
The MAS uses the exchange rate rather than interest rates as its main policy tool because Singapore’s trade flows dwarf its domestic economic activity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
And high above them all, looking down, is the red dwarf, just like Dad said.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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A production forecast at Cannington of 290,000 tons dwarfs Jefferies’ 206,000-ton estimate, it says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
“The issue with the U.S. is that the size of the Treasury market dwarfs the combined size of the Japanese, U.K., E.U. and other countries in Asia.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
During this phase, their outer layers churn and gradually drift into space, while the dense cores left behind shrink into white dwarfs.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
White dwarfs are generally much easier to recognize in ultraviolet light.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
Suttung took the mead the dwarfs had made from Kvasir’s blood.
From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman
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Her follower count dwarves DfE's 85,000 followers and Bridget Phillipson's 19,000 followers.
From BBC ● May 20, 2026
Named Erebor, after the mountain where the dwarves stored their treasure and which the dragon took over in J.R.R Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” that new bank won a preliminary regulatory approval Wednesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
There's also a debate over the fate of the seven dwarves, after unofficial images emerged of what have now been billed as seven "magical creatures".
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2023
Mining doesn't sound especially environmentally conscious, but the dwarves are just as attuned to the underground as elves and Harfoots are to above.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2022
‘I do not doubt it,' said Legolas. ‘But you are a dwarf, and dwarves are strange folk.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Last summer their gross transfer spend was £71m which was dwarfed by Manchester, City, Chelsea and Arsenal who were all over £200m while Wolves, who finished bottom last season, were £109m.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The outbreak in Michigan this year has dwarfed previous outbreaks of the illness in the state, which recorded only about 50 cases of cyclosporiasis in 2025.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
While Irish farmers did export some food to Britain, "it was dwarfed by the amount being brought in for distribution by the UK government", he added.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
But the new supply is still dwarfed by a 400,000-unit deficit of homes in the metropolitan area, according to Zillow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
We lie silently under outer space, taking in all those pinpricks of light, and I too feel dwarfed by the massive universe.
From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick
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The old computer-software index showed prices rising at a record 17% yearly pace, dwarfing any prior increase.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
There were more than 323 million visits to America’s national parks in 2025, dwarfing attendance — 135 million — at professional football, baseball, basketball and hockey games combined.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
Middleton has spent more than $16 million of his own money on the race so far, dwarfing any of his previous political spending many times over.
From Salon ● May 23, 2026
Unitree said it shipped more than 5,500 humanoids in 2025, for uses including research, education and public performances, dwarfing U.S. competitors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
On another Indonesian island—the small island of Flores—archaic humans underwent a process of dwarfing.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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