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Recent Examples of teensy The dead battery that could’ve ruined my entire trip was instead a teensy, minor annoyance. Eric Ravenscraft, WIRED, 20 Nov. 2022 This is not the case with Pretty in Pink, which made $40 million on a comparatively teensy $9 million budget. Drew MacKie, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2022 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 See All Example Sentences for teensy
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Adjective
  • Both videos show the pop star on the beach in a tiny, triangle zebra print bikini and a wide-brimmed hat.
    Clare Fisher, People.com, 1 July 2025
  • Eventually the Times just acknowledged on the front page what could always be found deeper in the newspaper: that the virus’s lethality was almost totally confined to a tiny percentage of very old Americans; nursing homes the routine locale of deaths once again with the virus.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
Adjective
  • Despite the camera’s minuscule size, image quality holds up.
    Sam Kieldsen, Wired News, 27 June 2025
  • Equally alarming is the minuscule investment in research, which receives less than 0.2% of the National Institutes of Health budget, despite the massive economic toll.
    Julienne Verdi, Boston Herald, 22 June 2025

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“Teensy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teensy. Accessed 6 Jul. 2025.

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