bite-size
Americanadjective
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small enough to fit in the mouth or be consumed in one or two bites.
bite-size candies.
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very small.
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quickly or easily comprehended, resolved, etc..
bite-size problems.
Example Sentences
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Companies are breaking up some of this year’s biggest bond offerings into bite-size pieces for the debt market to digest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026
Michael Arkush’s ‘The Golf 100’ book ranks the greatest golfers the only way he can, with some sweet, some savory and a few bitter stories in bite-size pieces.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2025
He was tasked with cutting together the company’s TV broadcasts into bite-size, BuzzFeed-style clips designed to juice virality.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2025
There are, of course, more pressing things happening in our country than sports pageantry and bite-size, 30-second doses of capitalism.
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2025
Most people made fesenjoon with chicken, but my late aunt had reinvented it with bite-size meatballs, and it had become a family recipe in her honor.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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