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
The University of Sussex researchers are now seeking industrial partnerships to help further miniaturize the technology for personal devices.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2023
“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
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
To the left, “Painting and Sculpture” clutches a palette while cradling a miniaturized replica of the Dionysus torso from the Parthenon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 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
But these are pre-telescopic texts and there are always clues as to who is normally sized and who is miniaturized or gigantized.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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
But miniaturizing a quadrupole is no easy task.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 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 De Presno, Odd
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