How to Use (it's a) small world in a Sentence

(it's a) small world

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  • The issue of what happens when the very small world meets the very large was first considered in the 1970s.
    — Adam Mann, Scientific American, 22 June 2023
  • Auburn, in a move that shows the small world of college coaching, hired Hugh Freeze, the former Ole Miss coach.
    — USA TODAY, 31 May 2023
  • That’s a pretty small world, really, and there’s a lot of great stuff beyond that.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2023
  • ProtestLand is a small world in Meta’s metaverse playscape, Horizon Worlds.
    — Jay Peters, The Verge, 21 Mar. 2023
  • In the small world of tie-tying, Mocka became a minor celebrity.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Your 8-month-old is starting to make their own way in their small world, and their personalities are starting to bloom.
    — Parents Editors, Parents, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The scandal was a big deal in the small world of intellectual Christian nationalism.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • But his affiliation with a gang west of downtown (a small world away from his Boyle Heights home) made moving around L.A. increasingly fraught.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
  • The staffers spoke on the condition of anonymity because of concerns about retaliation or blackballing in the small world of American museums.
    — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Others consider that view naive and expect Meta’s size to push the small world of apps built on ActivityPub in undesirable directions.
    — Gregory Barber, WIRED, 18 July 2023
  • Reflecting the small world of the Central Florida entertainment industry — where many know or have worked with each other — the social-media debate over the theater among the arts community has turned shockingly personal in recent days.
    — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Advertisement Most of the former employees interviewed by The Times would speak only anonymously out of concern of damaging relationships and jeopardizing employment opportunities in the small world of nonprofit housing.
    — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2023

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