miniaturize
Americanverb (used with object)
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Stuckey, the Mattson executive, fields requests from some of the country’s biggest food makers looking to miniaturize their products, or soup them up with protein or fiber.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
From there we are led to what we are told is Henry’s camper, a fantastically cozy abode filled with miniaturize installations and hidden nooks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2024
Trygstad used a new fabrication technique to miniaturize the actuator down to less than a milligram, the smallest ever known to have been made.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 18, 2024
Experts say the test would shed more light on how far North Korea has advanced in its goal to miniaturize nuclear warheads to mount on tactical weapons aimed at South Korea or Japan.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2023
Previously this sort of analysis was done in the lab; Woods Hole researchers were able to miniaturize Toda's DMS measurement setup to fit into a small boat.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 14, 2023
Elizabeth Banks plays Lindy Littlejohn, the miniaturized wife, who introduces the series over a montage of future bite-sized misadventures.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
The last time he looked at it was before everything was miniaturized and crammed into the iPhone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
NuScale, in particular, “pioneered and miniaturized industry-standard light-water reactor technology,” which in turn lowers the bar for the use of the smaller plants in the future, Soderberg wrote.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025
If we were to squeeze through small cracks in his mind’s cavern walls or crawl down its miniaturized hallways toward Erickson's nerve center, we might find ourselves in a room with a broken printer.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2025
He slumped forward and, from his hand, his miniaturized laser beam rolled across the surface of his desk.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
At Karma, Nicolas Party dives into self-referentiality with a show in which he has made copies of his own work, miniaturizing his creations in oil-on-copper panels.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Yet, major challenges of their development lie on the difficulty of miniaturizing the system and increasing its recognition capabilities in determining the exact gas species and their concentrations within complex odorant mixtures.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 28, 2024
The main engineering challenge will be miniaturizing the high-voltage conductor so it fits in the desired package but still supplies enough energy to the cathode so that the ions orbit fast enough to fuse together.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 26, 2022
To prepare, he spent the better part of a year perfecting and miniaturizing a four-camera, computer-coordinated system for high-speed filming.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 8, 2018
Bonsai is the Oriental Art of miniaturizing trees and plants into forms that mimic nature.
From The Online World by Odd De Presno
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