as in tiny
very small in size
kept losing the teeny-weeny coffee mugs for the kitchen in her dollhouse
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Recent Examples of teeny-weeny
Willems discusses how kids can use their imagination to understand their place.
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Award-winning author and illustrator Mo Willems' creative spark elevated him to the big time among children's book creators, but his latest work takes us into teeny-weeny territory.
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Abc News, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2024
Quant’s miniskirt was the teeny-weeny logo of an era of liberation.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
Jenner captioned the photo dump from her recent Italian vacation, including multiple lakeside shots in an itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny yellow thong bikini.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 24 Aug. 2023
Itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny pores, visible hydration — and all without any apparent makeup.
—Marci Robin, Allure, 7 July 2023
Without much deliberation, Sheva whips out that teeny-weeny mortar, basically a toy, an oversized under-barrel grenade launcher.
—Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2023
Abc News, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2024
Quant’s miniskirt was the teeny-weeny logo of an era of liberation.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
Jenner captioned the photo dump from her recent Italian vacation, including multiple lakeside shots in an itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny yellow thong bikini.
—Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 24 Aug. 2023
Itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny pores, visible hydration — and all without any apparent makeup.
—Marci Robin, Allure, 7 July 2023
Without much deliberation, Sheva whips out that teeny-weeny mortar, basically a toy, an oversized under-barrel grenade launcher.
—Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for teeny-weeny
Adjective
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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
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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
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Despite the camera’s minuscule size, image quality holds up.—
Sam Kieldsen,
Wired News,
27 June 2025
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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
Adjective
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Kids darted among game booths, waving miniature Panthers flags, and volunteers handed out popsicles and sunblock.—
Kaitlyn Pohly,
Miami Herald,
22 June 2025
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Raymond and her husband bought the land three decades ago to run a hobby farm, raising miniature donkeys, goats, chickens, horses, ducks and ponies.—
Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
17 June 2025
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