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
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
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
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
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
His work centers on miniaturizing mode-lock lasers -- a unique laser that emits a train of ultrashort, coherent light pulses in femtosecond intervals, which is an astonishing quadrillionth of a second.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2023
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
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
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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