miniaturize
Americanverb (used with object)
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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
"It's more stable. And it really allows you to miniaturize your setups."
From Science Daily ● Dec. 14, 2023
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
Her ability to miniaturize standard party magic tricks — and have an 18-inch-tall marionette perform sleight-of-hand — left audiences baffled.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2022
“But my group is working very hard to miniaturize and integrate everything into our wireless device.”
From Scientific American ● Jul. 29, 2022
When Mr. Haskell turns his lens on seagrass flowers, we glimpse organisms marvelously adapted to their watery environment, petals miniaturized into “scalelike shields,” with fruit and seeds protected as if in a bathyscape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
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
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
The findings, published online on Sept. 26, 2025, in Advanced Science, describe a fully human, miniaturized liver system developed from stem cells and a patient's own immune cells.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2025
It is this exact neighborhood, he realizes, colorless and depopulated and miniaturized.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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
They could also be a key component to miniaturizing optical devices, as electronics have become smaller over the years.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2024
With Starship, Heldmann says, “instead of miniaturizing your lab-scale instrument, just send the lab instrument. Send three of them if you want.”
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 20, 2023
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
Bonsai is the Oriental Art of miniaturizing trees and plants into forms that mimic nature.
From The Online World by De Presno, Odd
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