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dwarves

  • plural
    of dwarf.
    dwarf
    noun
    a person of abnormally small physical stature resulting from a medical or genetic condition, especially a person with achondroplasia or some other disease that produces disproportion or deformation of features and limbs.

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The Trump administration has greenlighted its first new bank, and it is a startup that takes its name from a mountain where dwarves stored their treasure in J.R.R.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

Here, it was pure joy to watch HORA’s actors embrace their inner hobbits, dwarves, wizards, orcs and elves — including one that yodels!

From New York Times ● May 10, 2024

There's also a debate over the fate of the seven dwarves, after unofficial images emerged of what have now been billed as seven "magical creatures".

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2023

But in the following weeks and then years, I saw an entire country buy into that carnivalesque rhetoric, that bandwagon of "dwarves and dancers," as we said at the time, and bring it into government.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2023

‘There were no dwarves nor children,’ said Éomer.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien