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Recent Examples of pinhead Tiny, round exit holes — about the size of a pinhead — may appear on the bark, sometimes with dark staining or oozing sap. James Campbell, Mercury News, 28 July 2025 Yet even capturing the identities of all 86 billion neurons, all smaller than a pinhead, plus their trillions of connections, still isn’t enough. Dobromir Rahnev, The Conversation, 23 May 2025 Because of a bug, only two, pinhead and pinheaded, made it into the live version. German Lopez, New York Times, 16 May 2025 For 10 consecutive days in December 1995, astronomers pointed the Hubble Telescope at a seemingly barren patch of sky, an area no larger than a pinhead held at arm's length. Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pinhead
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Noun
  • Only a moron would cut the funding of an industry that actually brings revenue into the government’s pocket.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Seth Rollins gassed Bron up by saying Jey Uso thinks his dad is a loser and his uncle is a moron.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • So, the parallel thing that I’ve been frustrated by recently is not just calling Trump stupid, but calling Trump voters stupid.
    Drew Broussard May 22, Literary Hub, 22 May 2025
  • Sometimes too stupid is actually smartski but sometimes is just stupid stupid.
    Caroline Downey, National Review, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The glass windows are blocked by tables and a piano and a crib and a dressmaker’s dummy.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • However, an image of the dummies shared by leaker Sonny Dickson indicates Samsung's finally making room for magnetic rings at the back.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 12 Oct. 2025

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“Pinhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pinhead. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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