miniaturize
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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
“An advantage of this system is they could miniaturize it even more,” she says.
From Scientific American ● May 9, 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
Shulaker said he took a different approach, building miniaturized sensors that capture the overall aroma fingerprint of a sample.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
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
"They are usually bulky, but the magnonic system we studied could allow microwave devices to be miniaturized to the micrometer scale."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 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 wind was gusting, rolling clouds across the sky; the view was spectacular, the city miniaturized, utterly dwarfed by the chapel.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
For decades, shrinking photonic devices has been far more difficult than miniaturizing electronic components.
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2026
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
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
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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