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Recent Examples of micro
Renaud Tixier’s movement is a highly innovative micro-rotor movement that features an inertia wheel within the micro-rotor and a ‘dancer’ spring, orchestrated to optimize winding by harvesting even the smallest motion.
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Thor Svaboe, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2025
Evidently, special teams coordinator Darren Rizzi’s idea to interrupt practice for micro one-punt periods has paid off.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2025
In 2019, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) conducted a pilot test of micro-jamming technology at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina.
—Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 6 Sep. 2025
The prototype is built using commercially available parts, including micro-LED lights, optical lenses, and sensors from smartphone cameras, keeping costs down and making future mass production feasible.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
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Thor Svaboe, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2025
Evidently, special teams coordinator Darren Rizzi’s idea to interrupt practice for micro one-punt periods has paid off.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2025
In 2019, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) conducted a pilot test of micro-jamming technology at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, South Carolina.
—Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 6 Sep. 2025
The prototype is built using commercially available parts, including micro-LED lights, optical lenses, and sensors from smartphone cameras, keeping costs down and making future mass production feasible.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for micro
Adjective
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The vehicle is reported to be the first Honda mini car to come with single-pedal control, where acceleration, slowing down and stopping can all be undertaken using one pedal.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
15 Sep. 2025
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On Thursday, the City Council approved a temporary pause on permit fees for sidewalk cafes, street cafes and mini park spaces for dining establishments.—
Chris Higgins,
Kansas City Star,
15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Next is Boll’s bedroom, a smallish, enveloping cabin.—
Laura Bannister,
Curbed,
5 Sep. 2025
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Even though this smallish island was a fraction of the size of France, its capital markets enabled it to successfully finance its global contest with France, whose crude financial system was a severe handicap in financing those wars.—
Steve Forbes,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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This is not the 21st-century China that the state is keen to project in films that play abroad — and these characters are not model 21st-century Chinese, either.—
Adam Solomons,
IndieWire,
5 Sep. 2025
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Rather than locking in with a single large language model, Lincoln is pursuing a model-agnostic approach, choosing tools based on their strengths in areas like code generation or cybersecurity.—
Peter High,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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This personal blender can whip up breakfast smoothies, sauces and dips, salsas, omelets, and more thanks to its small but mighty 250-watt power base and stainless steel cross blade.—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
16 Sep. 2025
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Among its 14 plant oils are argan kernel and rice bran, which regulate sebum production and loosen dead skin cells, respectively—and, together, leave your pores looking significantly smaller and your skin significantly smoother.—
Sophia Panych,
Allure,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Here's what to know about the pocket-size tequilas.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
20 Aug. 2025
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Throughout my childhood, and to this day, Dad regularly reads his favorite book, The Greatest Thing in the World, a pocket-size theological meditation on love as defined in First Corinthians.—
Nancy Walecki,
The Atlantic,
7 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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When the tiny home arrives, a semi-permanent setup is as easy as leveling the surface, hooking up utilities, and anchoring the home, if desired, which can be accomplished with the help of the builder’s team.—
Maggie Horton,
PEOPLE,
14 Sep. 2025
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Every day is a new chance to accurately fix the coördinates of my appearance in clothes, to make tiny adjustments, as if focussing a lens.—
Rachel Kushner,
New Yorker,
14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Little more than a century later, life expectancy had dramatically increased to seventy nine years—all due to a better understanding of microscopic germs as the cause of infectious diseases, public health measures, and the discovery and application of antibiotics.—
Alan Lightman
September 12,
Literary Hub,
12 Sep. 2025
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And, biologists diagnosing based on microscopic findings in samples from the animal’s body still risk misidentifying the worm.—
Jessie Richards,
The Conversation,
12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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They’re made of rayon, nylon, and spandex, and are currently available in a petite-friendly 24-inch inseam.—
Destinee Scott,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Sep. 2025
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These petite potatoes are boiled, then stir fried, tossed with a salty-sweet sauce and finished with sesame seeds, green onions and pepper flakes.—
Faye Levy,
Oc Register,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Micro.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/micro. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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