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as in diminutive
of a size that is less than average a model train carrying Lilliputian figures through a miniature landscape

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Recent Examples of Lilliputian Slovenia—a Lilliputian nation about the size of New Jersey but with less than a quarter of its population—has many stories to tell. Ellen Ruppel Shell, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024 The Lilliputian sellers regularly fail to do damage when matched with the oblivious index money. Jim Cramer, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2024 Lo trumpets Lilliputian equipment: 1-quart pots; an immersion blender in place of a behemoth; a toaster oven in lieu of a conventional one. Scott Hocker, theweek, 2 Aug. 2024 They’re served in Lilliputian beer steins that look like they were pulled from a doll house. Becky Cooper, New York Times, 7 May 2024 Photograph: Ted Stryk/NASA/SwRI/MSS Yet the relatively small hearts in Lilliputian moons like Enceladus don’t contain enough radioactive matter to keep them toasty for billions of years. WIRED, 24 Dec. 2023 Recent viral evening bags have been shaped like pigeons, covered in crystals and rendered useless by Lilliputian proportions. Aria Darcella / Photographs By F. Martin Ramin/the Wall Street Journal; Prop Styling By Sean Dooley , WSJ, 24 Nov. 2023 Yet the relatively small hearts in Lilliputian moons like Enceladus don’t contain enough radioactive matter to keep them toasty for billions of years. Quanta Magazine, 2 Nov. 2023 Though feedback in the category concerns Lilliputian vessels, readers nevertheless gave these brands some of the best marks received in any World’s Best Awards voting. Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 11 July 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Lilliputian
Adjective
  • Shaikh said the swap is happening in the food hall's incubator section, where small businesses can get a stall and a six month lease to try out new concepts.
    Jordyn Noennig, Journal Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Black bears are the smallest of the North American bears.
    Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • These are diminutive soft-bodied crustaceans that live in an oyster’s gills.
    Jennifer Hope Choi, Bon Appétit, 13 Dec. 2024
  • With orange eyes and greyish-green skin, the diminutive Hutlett is the spitting image of his gangster father, Jabba, only smaller.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • My understanding has always been that the relic trade is loosely tolerated by the powers that be (many of whom have some pretty choice relics of their own), because one of the sneakiest ways authoritarian societies thrive is by letting their subjects get away with petty rebellions.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 13 Dec. 2024
  • As our profile lays out, the record reveals Billy Wagner as a blustery, bigger-than-life figure who engaged in petty crime and coached his family to do the same.
    Patricia Gallagher Newberry, The Enquirer, 12 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Bieber assumes little, to no risk in the agreement.
    Bernie Pleskoff, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Tens of thousands of social media users mocked the death of the health insurance CEO and showed little sympathy after the killing.
    Holly Yan, CNN, 7 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • But these conservationists were not always taken seriously by professional ornithologists, who often viewed them as parochial animal lovers and laughed at their efforts.
    Tim Gallagher, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024
  • There are literally thousands of other Americans worldwide who have dedicated their lives in similar ways to causes that are more consequential than parochial nationalism.
    Saleem H. Ali, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • The rock, ringed with black and marked by distinctive white veins and dozens of tiny bright spots, was discovered as Perseverance explored a quarter-mile-wide valley called Neretva Vallis.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
  • This showed the surprised owner just how tiny her dog is.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Soon, we were told to go to the back of the train, where MTA workers were escorting us onto the narrow cat track to the escape stairs.
    Gillian Telling, People.com, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Get the most out of your galley kitchen with our guide to navigating the notoriously narrow floor plan in style By Elizabeth Stamp and Perri Ormont Blumberg All products featured on Architectural Digest are independently selected by our editors.
    Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 12 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The monsters are tall and impressively athletic-looking, with devil ears and animatronic snouts that snap like miniature crocodile jaws.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Dec. 2024
  • His miniature self walks to the last room on the right, which is almost entirely empty.
    Barry Levitt, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024

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“Lilliputian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Lilliputian. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.

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