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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
  • On a soupy September morning in northeast Wisconsin, a blue semi-truck arrives at Tisch Mills Farm Center in the tiny town of Carlton.
    Miranda Dunlap, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • In an ideal world, a tiny home could provide the ideal solution for in-laws to have space to visit your home for extended visits.
    Chaunie Brusie, Parents, 6 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Stephen, despite filming in Paris on a minuscule budget, achieves an uncanny evocation of Asia and of the past.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2025
  • High-resolution 3-D scans allow researchers to visualize minuscule anatomies without lifting a scalpel.
    Marion Renault, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2025

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

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