smallish
Example Sentences
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Where others in the segment are biggish, it is smallish.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
A smallish example is water companies in the United Kingdom, where years of strong performance masked budding problems with pollution and customer dissatisfaction.
From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025
Solvang, about 130 miles northwest of Los Angeles, has about 20 hotels and most are smallish and independent.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2025
While the £700m-£1bn a year it raises in the UK is smallish beer, since the UK and France introduced a hit to big tech's revenues, many other countries have followed suit.
From BBC • Feb. 28, 2025
Standing in front of a smallish brick house with a yard that was probably pretty nice in the summer but was pretty bare right now.
From "Orbiting Jupiter" by Gary D. Schmidt
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