as in tiny
very small in size
for years we lived in a teensy apartment that was the size of the proverbial broom closet
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Recent Examples of teensy
Hummingbirds are accustomed to feeding at patches of flowers, where each blossom contains just a teensy-tiny amount of life-giving nectar.
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John Kelly, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2022
Cascades with an overloaded pack and had just slogged a mile up 1,000 vertical feet, pausing before the valley that would lead to a cirque, when Ms. Ultralight swept up silently behind me wearing minimalist trail-running shoes and a teensy pack.
—Will Taylor, Outside Online, 26 June 2022
That game was developed by the teensy two-person Swedish studio Dennaton Games and somehow went on to sell over 1.5 million copies.
—Luke Winkie, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2022
There are also a few teensy grains of zircon from Jack Hills, Australia, dated to about 4.4 billion years old.
—Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2017
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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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“Teensy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teensy. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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