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  • adjective superlative form of teeny: most teeny.

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Examples

  • You know, if the media did even the slightest, teeniest little bit to draw out the analogy and show why it may be apt, then it would be maybe half believable.

    Will Obama's war become his Vietnam? 2009

  • I had two huge, heavy bricks where my chest once was… and a baby with what seemed to be the teeniest mouth.

    Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms Jack Canfield 2011

  • But Madeleine, Mr. Eugenides writes, could read Barthes' deconstructions of love all day without feeling her love for Leonard diminish the teeniest little bit.

    Sense & Semiotics Sam Sacks 2011

  • Don seems to have the teeniest bit of fun with his children from time to time.

    All the mad men and all the mad women can't tell a joke to save their lives 2009

  • He was awesome as a baby, slept through the night at 7 weeks and was never the teeniest bit of trouble.

    Let Me Know When I Am Done | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • Why, I wouldn't run the chance of the teeniest accident happenin 'to you for a million dollars.

    CHAPTER VIII 2010

  • The launch on November 26th began "an 8½-month, 354 million-mile journey... in which NASA's six-wheeled, one-armed wonder, Curiosity, will reach Mars next summer and use its jackhammer drill, rock-zapping laser machine and other devices to search for evidence that Earth's next-door neighbor might once have been home to the teeniest forms of life."

    James M. Gentile: Space Exploration Reaches New Milestones - for Technology and Jobs James M. Gentile 2011

  • Without those rookie sessions, Manning doesn't scan the field, see a Cover-2 defense, recognize that the Patriots jammed his top two receivers on the right, look off New England's safeties, slide up in the pocket and thread the ball 38 yards into the teeniest of windows for Mario Manningham for the game's biggest play.

    One Giant Partnership Aditi Kinkhabwala 2012

  • Skip past conservative holdouts like Charvet and Brioni and you'll find that Burberry and Hugo Boss are making some of the teeniest collars on the market.

    The Incredible Shrinking Collar Darrell Hartman 2011

  • TEFF Teff is said to be the teeniest grain on earth: 150 times smaller than a single wheat berry.

    Get Your Freekeh On Kristen Miglore 2012

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