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
The team looked to miniaturize ultrasound elastography to fit on a stamp-sized sticker.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 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
“But my group is working very hard to miniaturize and integrate everything into our wireless device.”
From Scientific American ● Jul. 29, 2022
The set by Marsha Ginsberg presents a model of Cranberry, with its downtown buildings miniaturized in the style of an adult playhouse.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
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
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
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
And plenty of work focused on miniaturizing the optical sensing equipment so that it could fit into a payload the size of a shoebox.
From The Verge ● Jun. 23, 2022
A variety of technologies have been employed in miniaturizing the components needed to make this style of extracted coffee in order to make the drink accessible for home users.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
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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