variants also pocket-sized
as in small
of a size that is less than average a pocket-size country in the Pyrenees

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Recent Examples on the Web As the ship careers out of control, Osha reaches beyond the bars of her prison for her pocket-size personal droid assistant, Pip. Noel Murray, Vulture, 4 June 2024 While many people just walk by the rectangular openings in the sidewalk from which the trees spring — or, worse, use the spaces as trash cans and doggy litter boxes — others lay claim, unofficially, to these pocket-size patches of land. Jane Margolies, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024 Like several other pocket-size displays, this one could serve as a rough draft for bigger, deeper shows to come. Holland Cotter, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2024 Advertisement Social media also create opportunities for exploitation and harassment that simply didn’t exist before vast swaths of the population were connected by pocket-size computers. Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023 See all Example Sentences for pocket-size 

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“Pocket-size.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pocket-size. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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