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- noun the state or quality of being
tiny
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Examples
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And it underscored the tinyness, the comparative insignificance of our world and ourselves.
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She could almost but not quite glimpse that his face was a bit non human looking, foreign in its tinyness, eyes without lashes, mouth a straight line, neck far too small, all of which could be frightening to look at deeply.
The Illuminated Dream Tantra Bensko 2011
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And it underscored the tinyness, the comparative insignificance of our world and ourselves.
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And it underscored the tinyness, the comparative insignificance of our world and ourselves.
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(This chapter in Sisman's book should be skipped by anyone of a delicate disposition: the ugliness of the behaviour exhibited by his opponents was in inverse proportion to the laughable tinyness of the teacup.)
Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography by Adam Sisman Stefan Collini 2010
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Instead of having to create massive agencies in order to benefit from the economies of scale, we can now create massive numbers of tiny agencies highly networked together, and benefit both from really useful economies of scale (aggregation of knowledge, and in some cases things like health insurance, medical care, continuing education, etc) and from useful economies of tinyness.
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"Daniel Pipes 'heart may" go out "to the Iranians but given the apparent tinyness of his heart what good can that do them?"
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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Daniel Pipes 'heart may "go out" to the Iranians but given the apparent tinyness of his heart what good can that do them?
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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Sadly the tinyness of your brain is likely to cause far more problems than that of Pipes's heart.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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Daniel Pipes 'heart may "go out" to the Iranians but given the apparent tinyness of his heart what good can that do them?
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