as in minuscule
very small in size
the forest ranger showed us how every square foot of forest is alive with tiny creatures
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a tiny bit
a tiny fraction
a small fraction
an insignificant fraction
a measly fraction
a negligible fraction
a pitiful fraction
tiny holes
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Recent Examples of tiny
Instead of worksheets and textbooks, children practice adding and subtracting with tiny toy bears.
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Cory Turner, NPR, 17 Mar. 2025
Once established, the tiny flies continue to mate, lay eggs, and hatch indoors.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2025
Fog harvesting is the practice of capturing tiny water droplets from fog with specialized mesh nets.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
Its tiny blossoms are a unique blend of blue, purple, and gray—the intensity of which are captured in a range of periwinkle nail polish shades this season.
—Alice Nardiotti, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2025
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Cory Turner, NPR, 17 Mar. 2025
Once established, the tiny flies continue to mate, lay eggs, and hatch indoors.
—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 16 Mar. 2025
Fog harvesting is the practice of capturing tiny water droplets from fog with specialized mesh nets.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2025
Its tiny blossoms are a unique blend of blue, purple, and gray—the intensity of which are captured in a range of periwinkle nail polish shades this season.
—Alice Nardiotti, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tiny
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Other than minuscule amounts of state funding in some cases and a smattering of private donations, tribal colleges that lose any federal funding have few other sources of income.—
Matt Krupnick,
ProPublica,
10 Mar. 2025
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The birds are already minuscule and delicate, and many of the ones Masear works with are babies whose mothers have disappeared or died, which puts them in even greater peril.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The jets assigned to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President François Hollande were parked nearby, appearing almost miniature in comparison.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
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The males gather twigs and place them upright, in two bundles, with a gap in the middle, resulting in what looks like a miniature archway.—
Shawn Simpson,
The Conversation,
19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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But humans are generally unaware of the rich microscopic world beneath our feet, in part because until relatively recently, scientists had few tools to accurately catalog such tiny species.—
Paulina Rowińska,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Mar. 2025
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Researchers have compared this survival strategy to that of tardigrades, microscopic creatures famous for enduring the vacuum of space.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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In early December, Roberts returned to the place of his birth, traveling to the Japanese city of Naha on the small Pacific island of Okinawa to receive an official recognition from the municipality’s local government.—
Houston Mitchell,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Mar. 2025
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Sitting in his idling pickup one afternoon, Sherlock watched as a Canadian Pacific train rumbled by the grain elevator in the small town of Wimbledon.—
Kirk Siegler,
NPR,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Tiny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tiny. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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