smallness

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Recent Examples of smallness That type of breaking is undisciplined indulgence that is normally meant to terrorize and threaten people and is driven by people who operate from a place of smallness, ego fragility, and fear of their own powerlessness. Brené Brown, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2025 Identify every instance of victim language, limitation beliefs, or smallness thinking. Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025 Hawley, who directed the premiere, brings an impressive sense of scale to the action, conveying the hugeness of the spaceship and its urban crash zone, contrasted with the smallness of the figures trying to make their way through the mayhem. Noel Murray, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for smallness
Noun
  • Don’t get caught up in pettiness.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 15 Oct. 2025
  • This week, in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Pam Bondi gave a master class in obfuscation, prevarication, and pettiness.
    John Ficarra, Air Mail, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Her difficulty lay in her distance from the random violence of insignificance.
    Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
  • His groundbreaking work reveals how a hidden epidemic of insignificance is quietly eroding engagement, trust, and performance in organizations, and what leaders can do to reverse it.
    Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025

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“Smallness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smallness. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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