as in little guys
an average or ordinary man
claims that the wind farm would benefit only its developers and that the little man would get nothing out of it
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Recent Examples of little men
Boarding school has been making Muck boys into ugly, priggish little men for generations.
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Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for little men
Noun
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Red buckeye and coral honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens) are two of the major native feeder plants for these little guys to follow when the plants bloom progressively from the South to the North when temperatures start to rise.—
Campbell Vaughn,
USA Today,
21 Feb. 2026
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So, why are these little guys missing?—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
14 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Some workers complain that receiving calls and messages can interrupt their recordings, and having a phone strapped to their head is uncomfortable.—
NILESH CHRISTOPHER LOS ANGELES TIMES,
Arkansas Online,
15 Mar. 2026
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The department eventually helped a hundred and sixty-one workers recover on average roughly three thousand dollars in wages each.—
Boyce Upholt,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The 50th anniversary of his Game 7 heroics was marked in 2010 by the unveiling — on Bill Mazeroski Way — of a 14-foot, 2,000-pound statue of one of Pittsburgh’s greatest everymen, rounding the bases, on top of the world.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Feb. 2026
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“Little men.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/little%20men. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.
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