(it's a) small world

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—used to show surprise when one meets someone one knows at an unexpected place or finds out that one shares a friend, acquaintance, etc., with another person

You know him, too? Wow, it's a small world.

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Brown, a professor of planetary astronomy at Caltech, discovered another small world called Eris in the Kuiper Belt — a vast ring of icy objects beyond Neptune’s orbit that also happens to be the former ninth planet’s neighborhood. —

Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 5 Nov. 2024 The pacing is slow and the plot isn’t much–a series of adults that gain Janet’s attention disrupt Lacy’s small world—but the film holds you in its delicate grip all the way through. —

Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2024 Every mission to an asteroid, comet, or small world, ever Britannica. —

Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024 Fashion is a small world, fashion inspired by fetish wear is even smaller. —

Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for (it's a) small world

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