as in tiny
very small in size
a wee baby
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Recent Examples of wee
Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing arm of the retailing giant, experienced a massive outage in the wee hours of Monday that knocked out what felt like everything.
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Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
While Jeffrey is cleaning himself in the sink in the wee hours, the store’s manager (Dinklage) shows up and encounters the naked trespasser.
—Eric Andersson, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Plans for a relaxing vacation take a turn in the wee hours of their first morning.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
The coaching points for catching a football don’t change much from pee-wee leagues to the Big Ten.
—Austin Meek, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
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Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2025
While Jeffrey is cleaning himself in the sink in the wee hours, the store’s manager (Dinklage) shows up and encounters the naked trespasser.
—Eric Andersson, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
Plans for a relaxing vacation take a turn in the wee hours of their first morning.
—Courtney Howard, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
The coaching points for catching a football don’t change much from pee-wee leagues to the Big Ten.
—Austin Meek, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wee
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At the previous World Cup in 2022, hosted by tiny Qatar, all of England’s games were in Doha or just outside that city.—
Jack Pitt-Brooke,
New York Times,
9 Nov. 2025
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Nanotubes are ultra-small cylindrical structures, so tiny that thousands could fit across the width of a human hair.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Nov. 2025
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The amount of space between garden soil particles is so minuscule that container plants struggle to send their roots into it and extract nutrients from it.—
Megan Hughes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Nov. 2025
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Budgets for these projects are minuscule (generally, $100,000 to $300,000 per series), and platforms release a lot of them, experimenting to see what resonates with viewers.—
Katie Kilkenny,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Wee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wee. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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