1
as in small
lacking importance
a woman who at town meetings insists on airing every little Mickey Mouse concern she has
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2
as in nominal
so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention
as far as his schoolmarm of a boss is concerned, no rule is so Mickey Mouse that it can be ignored
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On Monday evening, a small but passionate group of parents, students, and teachers gathered at a school board meeting to once against ask officials to pause the plan and look for other options that would allow Central to stay open.—
Rose Evans,
Idaho Statesman,
14 Mar. 2025 -
Crib sheets, which are typically 10 inches deep, may be an exception due to their smaller size.—
Kelly Dawson,
Architectural Digest,
14 Mar. 2025
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Here’s why: Although technical specifications are still being worked out, the new standard could deliver nominal peak data rates of more than 40Gbps.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
20 Mar. 2025
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According to expert estimates, India needs to spend around $100 billion per year, or 2.8% of current nominal GDP, to achieve net-zero power sector emissions by 2070.—
Radhika Kak, independent researcher at Harvard Business School and Varad Pande, partner at BCG,
CNBC,
20 Mar. 2025
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The researchers say that while the brain activity associated with these movements largely remained the same over time, their location within the brain could shift slightly from day to day — and this is why AI, which can automatically adjust for these minor changes — proved key.—
Toria Sheffield,
People.com,
16 Mar. 2025
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Many sparkling water brands, kombucha makers, and craft sodas favor glass bottles for sustainability and quality—but if not manufactured correctly, even minor defects can lead to unexpected breakage.—
Stephanie Gravalese,
Forbes,
16 Mar. 2025
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Like the inclusion of the new music, the omission of the prince storyline shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who has been paying even the slightest attention to the controversies plaguing the production of Snow White for the past few years.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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Here, again, there were slight differences in the responses when broken down by party affiliation.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
20 Mar. 2025
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Nintendo officially confirmed the Nintendo Switch 2 via a teaser trailer that reveals the hybrid console, a plan for a Nintendo Direct on April 2 to give more details, and very little else.—
Will Greenwald,
PCMAG,
19 Mar. 2025
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Besides the fact that it’s scheduled to come out on June 22, 2026, very little is known right now about The Daniels upcoming movie at Universal.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
19 Mar. 2025
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That sketch, coming just before the episode’s closing performance by Cypress Hill, was the hour’s peak, containing all the promise of petty obsessions afforded airtime in a chorus of besuited actors shouting a monologue as one.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
13 Mar. 2025
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This isn’t to say the vigilante trans group in the new world is free of petty catfights.—
Grace Byron,
Vulture,
11 Mar. 2025
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Toward the bottom, there’s a strange and tiny figure in a dark cloak, walking.—
Amanda Petrusich,
The New Yorker,
17 Mar. 2025
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Regular computers, including the one on your desk, think in tiny bits of information that are either a 1 or a 0—like flipping a light switch on or off.—
Dr. Diane Hamilton,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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“Mickey Mouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Mickey%20Mouse. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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