teensy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of teensy
Example Sentences
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But without S&P 500 index-fund demand, the stock price doesn’t go up a teensy bit every time people in those funds make a retirement contribution.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026
A teensy stretch of trading weakness this year—a pause in rip-roaring gains, really—has left the valuation looking ordinary, despite a profit outlook that has no equal in history.
From Barron's ● Mar. 13, 2026
Things seem a teensy bit off in the opulent Long Island manor to which we are introduced at the start of “The Housemaid.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025
One can’t look into their hearts and souls, but under the circumstances their arguments seem more than a teensy bit cynical.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2024
Ever since getting shot by those darts, Taylor had had a teensy bit of trouble organizing her thoughts.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
This was simulated sediment, imported from France and composed of exactingly milled plastic pellets—teensy, half-millimetre-wide pellets for large grains of sand and even teensier ones to represent finer particles.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019
The animals, which grow to barely over an inch long, are even teensier when born.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2019
The existence of theoretical lane violations is the teensiest gripe in a flea circus of grievances.
From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2018
“I am the teensiest bit disappointed that my first — but surely not last — visit did not yield a Hawaiian Punch, but maybe if I ask verrrry nicely next time I will get it.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2018
Nothing, from the set design to the wardrobe choices to the teensiest snatches of dialogue, is unplanned or unconsidered.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2014
Until this Manchester derby. The football match that is about to be bestowed upon our eyes today is, without even the tiniest, teensiest dollop of doubt, the biggest footballing derby in the history of mankind.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 9, 2012
It didn’t change their minds even the teensiest bit, though.
From "P.S. I Miss You" by Jen Petro-Roy
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