as in tiny
very small in size
had to look closely to see the teeny splinter in her foot
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Recent Examples of teeny
His job is to help fight these teeny-tiny menaces.
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John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
One look was an ultra-cinching sheer corset minidress paired with lace-up heels and the other was a Dilara Findikoglu design with a teeny beaded bra as a top.
—Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 27 Oct. 2025
Glam was kept bronzed, with oil-spill black talon nails changed to a sheer satiny pink, and her hair slicked back in a tight bun, extra-long, teeny, tiny braids let down later.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
Tel Aviv’s strip of beach is teeny but vital and vibey nonetheless.
—Noa Tishby, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 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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“Teeny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/teeny. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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