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
As stars from the dwarf galaxy entered the larger galaxy, one of them may have passed too close to the dwarf galaxy's own supermassive black hole.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
Three Huntsmen pressed toward Fflewddur and the dwarf, forcing them into a thicket.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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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
It is a body of work that dwarfs anything put together by his rivals.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Most nearby red dwarfs have not yet been systematically examined for concealed white dwarf companions.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
Two of their master’s slave soldiers flung him into the back of the mule cart between the dwarfs.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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It dwarves the revenues of a team from the other top five leagues.
From BBC ● May 28, 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
Its £169,950 asking price dwarves the £200 her parents paid for it.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2023
A precious metal known as mithril, which just so happens to be in the mines of the dwarves.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2022
‘We are forgetting our family history! These must be the very three that were caught by Gandalf, quarrelling over the right way to cook thirteen dwarves and one hobbit.’
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" 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
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
As large swings in individual stocks have recently dwarfed moves for the S&P 500 as a whole, the spread between two important gauges of implied volatility has expanded to its widest level on record.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 16, 2026
Issuance in the first half of the year dwarfed the $421 billion raised in the same period last year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
Although Shukumar was six feet tall, with hands too big ever to rest comfortably in the pockets of his jeans, he felt dwarfed in the back seat.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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Tall, gaunt and calculating, Wagoner’s angles had angles, but somehow standing next to her, his pompadour dwarfing her considerable bouffant, it worked.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
While economists view this threshold as largely symbolic, the sheer magnitude is hard to overstate, dwarfing the entire annual output of the U.S. economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The old computer-software index showed prices rising at a record 17% yearly pace, dwarfing any prior increase.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
A successful debut could make him history's first trillionaire, dwarfing other billionaires in the sheer size of his fortune.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
The United States now has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, dwarfing the rates of nearly every developed country, even surpassing those in highly repressive regimes like Russia, China, and Iran.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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