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Recent Examples of teensy Hummingbirds are accustomed to feeding at patches of flowers, where each blossom contains just a teensy-tiny amount of life-giving nectar. John Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2022 Cascades with an overloaded pack and had just slogged a mile up 1,000 vertical feet, pausing before the valley that would lead to a cirque, when Ms. Ultralight swept up silently behind me wearing minimalist trail-running shoes and a teensy pack. Will Taylor, Outside Online, 26 June 2022 That game was developed by the teensy two-person Swedish studio Dennaton Games and somehow went on to sell over 1.5 million copies. Luke Winkie, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2022 There are also a few teensy grains of zircon from Jack Hills, Australia, dated to about 4.4 billion years old. Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2017 See All Example Sentences for teensy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for teensy
Adjective
  • In many respects, CDMS users receive the powerful anti-ship capabilities of a surface warfare vessel worth many hundreds of millions of dollars for just a tiny fraction of that price.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Spiders have venom to subdue prey, but the majority have fangs that are too tiny to puncture human skin.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The magic of Parker’s music—what makes his records so restless, dithery, dynamic—hinges on the minuscule yet crucial difference between perfectionism (endlessly boring) and obsession (endlessly interesting).
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • All the same, these are minuscule sample sizes.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Teensy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teensy. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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