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[lit-l] / ˈlɪt l /








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"It does feel a little bit different," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

That helps explain why scam victims often have little chance of recovering their losses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

The opening of Africa's biggest refinery, by billionaire industrialist Aliko Dangote, has done little to stem the pain, which has only been ratcheted up further as the war in Iran squeezes global oil prices.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

As such, his model is a little more relaxed than Shibuya’s.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

“We just goin’ up the stairs,” a little kid says.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Daniel Goldman, an activist who specialises in Haredi issues, says that the two main Haredi parties feel increasingly embattled and less open to compromise.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Rare earths, harder to separate and less valuable, are generally recycled alongside steel and end up irretrievably lost in a byproduct called slag.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

The researchers also discovered that antibody patterns could help distinguish people who would develop complicated Crohn's disease from those whose disease would remain less complicated.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

I worry a small kitchen means the end of Thanksgiving, and that the grandkids will come less often if there’s no yard.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026

Despite Ma’s intention for me to meet James Wong, I cared less about running into him than catching up with Anna May.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Lighthouse said its therapy centers primarily serve patients with acute autism, that it has no minimum required level of therapy, and that it refers about 10% of prospective patients—generally ones with lesser needs—elsewhere.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Faded stars could scrape out a second act in B-movies and lesser studio offerings without losing the prestige of the silver screen.

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026

Policy wonks are not typically famous: If they are, that fame is restricted to a league of Beltway professionals—famous in the way that really good brain surgeons are famous to other, presumably lesser brain surgeons.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

Pike's legal team, meanwhile, are calling on Tennessee Governor Bill Lee to commute her punishment to the lesser sentence of life in prison without parole.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

“It’s really great. You should watch it sometime. If you can bring yourself to watch a movie about a lesser sport.”

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

Though Disneyland Park’s littler and much younger sibling, the park has grown into a respectable offering, one that ranks among my favorite Disney parks in North America.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026

"You wouldn't think there were that many places to hide but when Ramona was littler, I think she'd been in every cupboard in one of those trailers," says Drew-Honey, now 28.

From BBC ● Dec. 25, 2024

No surprise there—as the term accelerates toward a contentious finale, the tensions roiling major cases are bound to spill over into littler ones.

From Slate ● Jun. 17, 2024

Birch said he and his colleagues solved a "geometry problem" regarding how long it would take for the littler rivers to fill the deltas that the Perseverance and Curiosity rovers explored on Mars.

From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2023

Instead she sat at the water’s edge, as she had done when Ess was littler, and watched the others jump and shout.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder

“I got the least amount of help, but better, still better.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

To keep the new price, executives and employees must remain employed and wait until at least April 19 to exercise the options, “which ties their outcome directly to shareholders,” the Trade Desk spokesman said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

This indicated that at least some of the adaptations were persistent rather than simply short-lived responses to their surroundings.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was not buff, at least to our knowledge.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

“And, Arlo, it’s straight home for you for a while. I mean it. No hanging out after school with your friends, at least for now. Do I make myself clear?”

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

"We didn't abandon seatbelts because people didn't want to buckle up, and we will not flinch at holding tech companies to account when our littlest citizens are at stake."

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

The littlest Mac has gone viral as a cost-effective way for AI power users to run local large language models that can eat up dozens of gigabytes of RAM, aka memory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

"He always has time to chat with every little one and has the ability to charm even the littlest of children who may be a little shy of a big man in a red suit."

From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2024

Caiazzo was part of a research team that in 2021 reported on one with a petite diameter slightly larger than Earth's moon that boasted the greatest mass and littlest size of any known white dwarf.

From Reuters ● Jul. 21, 2023

The littlest Vanderbeeker had taken it upon herself to go up the stairs, and she was already halfway between the second and third floors.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser


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