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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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Hero styles will include a double-strap scoop bra, a footsie legging, a mini short, a two-inch boy short, a long-sleeve wrap top, side-snap sweatpants and an oversize track jacket.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
22 Sep. 2025
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Oh the memes that will be made around Grogu looking through a mini telescope!—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Because of its smallish size, Kentucky’s capital (population 28,000) is a city where neighborliness and politics go hand in hand.—
Robin Roenker,
Southern Living,
13 Sep. 2025
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Next is Boll’s bedroom, a smallish, enveloping cabin.—
Laura Bannister,
Curbed,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Unlike the performance of the song in This is Spinal Tap, though, the Stonehenge monument is in full-scale this time, not the model-sized version mistakenly produced for the concert in the first film.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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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
Adjective
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In an initial analysis that didn’t control for genetic factors, the researchers found a small association between women who used acetaminophen during pregnancy and the incidence of autism, ADHD, and intellectual disability.—
Dominique Mosbergen,
Time,
23 Sep. 2025
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The Twins averaged 22,108 fans a game, 24th out of 30 Major League Baseball teams, though two of those teams behind them are playing in smaller-capacity, minor league stadiums.—
Betsy Helfand,
Twin Cities,
22 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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The pleasures of chewy textures are on better display in a shallow bowl of trofie, teeny-tiny handmade pasta twists cooked to a lovely springiness.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
21 Sep. 2025
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This archipelago, with one main island and hundreds of tiny islands, is reachable via a multi-hour ferry ride or seaplane from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and northern Minnesota.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This structure creates microscopic tunnels that allow sodium ions to move through the material efficiently.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
19 Sep. 2025
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Because tracking these microscopic misfits through plant tissues is akin to chasing ghosts with a magnifying glass.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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G4Free Wide-leg Pants Finding a pair of yoga pants that won’t drag on the floor is a challenge for petite shoppers, but these wide-leg bottoms from G4Free fit the bill.—
Melony Forcier,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Sep. 2025
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The inseam options include 26, 28, 30, and 32 inches, making these pants suitable for a range of heights, not just petite shoppers.—
Rachel Trujillo,
PEOPLE,
16 Sep. 2025
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“Micro.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/micro. Accessed 23 Sep. 2025.
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