as in tiny
very small in size
kept losing the teeny-weeny coffee mugs for the kitchen in her dollhouse
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Recent Examples of teeny-weeny
Willems discusses how kids can use their imagination to understand their place.
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Award-winning author and illustrator Mo Willems' creative spark elevated him to the big time among children's book creators, but his latest work takes us into teeny-weeny territory.
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Abc News, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2024
Quant’s miniskirt was the teeny-weeny logo of an era of liberation.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
Jenner captioned the photo dump from her recent Italian vacation, including multiple lakeside shots in an itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny yellow thong bikini.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 24 Aug. 2023
Itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny pores, visible hydration — and all without any apparent makeup.
—Marci Robin, Allure, 7 July 2023
Without much deliberation, Sheva whips out that teeny-weeny mortar, basically a toy, an oversized under-barrel grenade launcher.
—Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2023
Abc News, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2024
Quant’s miniskirt was the teeny-weeny logo of an era of liberation.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
Jenner captioned the photo dump from her recent Italian vacation, including multiple lakeside shots in an itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny yellow thong bikini.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 24 Aug. 2023
Itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny pores, visible hydration — and all without any apparent makeup.
—Marci Robin, Allure, 7 July 2023
Without much deliberation, Sheva whips out that teeny-weeny mortar, basically a toy, an oversized under-barrel grenade launcher.
—Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for teeny-weeny
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For what’s known as PM2.5 pollution, or tiny inhalable particles of smoke and dust, a PurpleAir sensor located south of Los Angeles International Airport simultaneously returned on Monday an air quality index of 28 on AirNow’s website, 20 on WatchDuty, and 5 on PurpleAir’s official page.Paresh Dave, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2025
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Despite their immense size, these gentle giants are filter feeders, primarily consuming plankton, small fish, and other tiny organisms by swimming with their mouths open to filter food from the water.Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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The minuscule creature is a baby from the species Neolithodes agassizii, a type of king crab.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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Riggs won reelection by 734 votes — a minuscule margin of victory that was confirmed by two recounts.Doug Bock Clark, ProPublica, 8 Jan. 2025
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To explore the relationship between memory retention and sleep, researchers at the university asked 35 English-speaking adults to study Mini Pinyin, a miniature language based on Mandarin.Maureen Mackey, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2025
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Perry the miniature donkey, who served as the movement model for the character Donkey from the popular Shrek franchise, has died at 30 years old.Toria Sheffield, People.com, 5 Jan. 2025
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“Teeny-weeny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teeny-weeny. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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