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also pocket-sized
as in small
of a size that is less than average
a pocket-size country in the Pyrenees
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Recent Examples of pocket-size
The committee’s bipartisan group of election and law enforcement officials developed pocket-size guides to election laws for police officers to carry.
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
The pocket-size device is actually a Bluetooth speaker that looks great on a desk or bookshelf and ensures their jams are always playing.
—Malia Griggs, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2024
There are a number of them available on Amazon, but this pocket-size version is a best-seller, even among firefighters.
—Jillian Dara, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2024
One church staffer presses a Bible to her forehead while another daubs her stomach with a pocket-size vial of holy oil.
—Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
The pocket-size device is actually a Bluetooth speaker that looks great on a desk or bookshelf and ensures their jams are always playing.
—Malia Griggs, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2024
There are a number of them available on Amazon, but this pocket-size version is a best-seller, even among firefighters.
—Jillian Dara, Travel + Leisure, 11 Aug. 2024
One church staffer presses a Bible to her forehead while another daubs her stomach with a pocket-size vial of holy oil.
—Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pocket-size
Adjective
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In North Carolina, a brush fire in the mountains was threatening Tryon and Saluda, small communities in the Blue Ridge Mountains about 40 miles south of Asheville.—
Amy Graff,
New York Times,
2 Mar. 2025
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Corporate taxes, contrary to popular belief, is relatively small ($50 billion).—
Shivaram Rajgopal,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Presented here, through some visual trickery, as a diminutive schlump with a hideous comb-over, Hawke doesn’t exactly disappear into the role, which strikes me as fortuitous and perhaps deliberate.—
Justin Chang,
The New Yorker,
27 Feb. 2025
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Named Grace after the late pioneer of software engineering Grace Murray Hopper, the diminutive craft will conduct several hops that reach up to 50 meters (164 feet) in the air before diving into a nearby crater that lives in permanent shadow.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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In many cases, these communities had gotten little federal attention for generations, Ortiz said.—
Zoë Schlanger,
The Atlantic,
7 Mar. 2025
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But these little twinges the audience might feel about everyone being mortal only added, if anything, to the evening’s personal potency, and the vitality of a reconvening of the tribe that supported the Wilson sisters from the outset, along with strays picked up during the MTV years.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
7 Mar. 2025
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“Pocket-size.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pocket-size. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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