puny
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Within five years, the firm was looking after $165 billion compared with the puny $20 billion that its departing investors had left behind them on the way out the door at the bubble-market highs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
Climate change is what philosopher Timothy Morton calls a hyperobject: something that so massively occupies space and time that our puny primate brains have trouble fathoming them.
From Salon • Dec. 31, 2025
Some senior Labour figures fret privately that their talk of "missions" and a "Plan for Change" might seem puny to many in comparison with the scale of that challenge.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2025
The winds of a Category 5 hurricane on our puny little planet can exceed 150 miles per hour.
From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2024
Her changing expression suggested to Roy that she’d figured out he was too meek and puny to pose a threat.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
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