variants
or pint-sized
as in diminutive
of a size that is less than average
a pint-size wrestler who could defeat opponents twice his size
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Recent Examples of pint-size
To address the overpopulation problem, county officials have approved new deals with a local nonprofit to help sterilize and relocate many of the pint-size equines to sanctuaries.
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Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2025
Keep reading to find more pint-size spaces available at Amazon for under $21,000.
—Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2025
On Provo, one of the coolest natural features is Chalk Sound National Park, a lagoon dotted with hundreds of pint-size limestone islands; many have sinkholes and caves.
—Kathryn Romeyn, AFAR Media, 26 Feb. 2025
Its pint-size bottles of serum are seriously incredible too.
—Devon Abelman, Allure, 11 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for pint-size
Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2025
Keep reading to find more pint-size spaces available at Amazon for under $21,000.
—Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2025
On Provo, one of the coolest natural features is Chalk Sound National Park, a lagoon dotted with hundreds of pint-size limestone islands; many have sinkholes and caves.
—Kathryn Romeyn, AFAR Media, 26 Feb. 2025
Its pint-size bottles of serum are seriously incredible too.
—Devon Abelman, Allure, 11 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for pint-size
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pint-size
Adjective
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Their double act had begun at secondary school, in North London, where Mulcahy protected the diminutive Duffy from bullies.—
Sarah Beckwith,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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With that hardware, the diminutive DGX Spark will produce 1,000 trillion operations per second (TOPS) when working on AI tasks, vastly outperforming consumer AI PCs' 40-50 TOPS.—
Brian Westover,
PC Magazine,
24 May 2025
Adjective
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Yes, Georgia and Paul split this season as the blowback from the trial — and Paul's support of Proposition 38, disastrous for small businesses — imperiled his mayoral career.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
7 June 2025
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Farmers watered their crops less, and saw smaller harvests as a result.—
Annika Merrilees,
Sacbee.com,
7 June 2025
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At parties, Lee showed off his miniature Minox camera and bragged that he was engaged in spycraft.—
Christopher Goffard,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2025
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The original miniature portrait has been lost to history.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 May 2025
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“Pint-size.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pint-size. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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