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teensy

[teen-see] / ˈtin si /


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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

She handed me a teensy, pink-and-green Lady Apple that looked like a toy and tasted like Smarties.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025

Each of these teensy homes had been rendered by A.I. software and smoothed with an assist from more A.I. software.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024

But how can something so great, and so greatly feared, become a teensy confection?

From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2023

When I asked Mom about it, she admitted that yes, she and Dad had a teensy bit of technical difficulty with the van.

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

Until this Manchester derby. The football match that is about to be bestowed upon our eyes today is, without even the tiniest, teensiest dollop of doubt, the biggest footballing derby in the history of mankind.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 9, 2012

It didn’t change their minds even the teensiest bit, though.

From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy




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