as in tiny
very small in size
a wee baby
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Recent Examples of wee
The elf can even help with various tasks during the wee morning hours.
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Abby McCloskey, Twin Cities, 24 Dec. 2025
The wee one joins siblings Mary, 5, and twins Lucy and Nicholas, 8, at home.
—Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 23 Dec. 2025
In these wee-hours discussions, a different kind of influence came up.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 22 Dec. 2025
In a series of photos that were ping-ponged across the internet at lightning speed in the wee hours of December 9, the lovebirds can be seen hamming it up for the cameras at the Los Angeles premiere of Chalamet’s new film, Marty Supreme.
—Sam Reed, Glamour, 9 Dec. 2025
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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.—
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Nanotubes are ultra-small cylindrical structures, so tiny that thousands could fit across the width of a human hair.—
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Yet despite these traits, scientists don’t fully understand how all the minuscule filaments of plastic get into our environment.—
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Risking his life again, the director embeds with a Ukrainian platoon attempting to retake the minuscule town of Andriivka that had been seized by Russian invaders.—
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“Wee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wee. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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