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With all that activity, small-time Helsinki took off, becoming a boomtown in support of the grand strategic fort.—Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 10 June 2026 In Romania, the Tates turned their small-time webcam enterprise into a kind of industrial operation.—Heidi Blake, New Yorker, 8 June 2026 Stallone stars as Rocky Balboa, a small-time Philly boxer who gets hand-picked to fight the heavyweight champion of the world, Apollo Creed (Weathers), for an unlikely shot at the belt.—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 5 June 2026 At 56, White is no longer a small-time boxing coach from South Boston.—Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 26 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for small-time