as in tiny
very small in size
made atomic adjustments to the clock's mechanism to keep it from whirring as it ran
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Recent Examples of atomic
Experts in atomic power were few, so Captain Rickover dispatched Mr. Carter, age 28, and his team to help dismantle the stricken plant.
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Bill Marsh, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
The remark is credited to Niels Bohr, the Nobel laureate in Physics and father of the atomic model.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
After the Holocaust and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Jewish and Japanese writers documented some survivors’ apprehensions about giving birth.
—Jack Jiang, The Conversation, 8 Jan. 2025
Uranium miners laid siege to the landscape during the early atomic age, and in the decades since, many dwellings and graves have been looted.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
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Bill Marsh, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024
The remark is credited to Niels Bohr, the Nobel laureate in Physics and father of the atomic model.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
After the Holocaust and the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Jewish and Japanese writers documented some survivors’ apprehensions about giving birth.
—Jack Jiang, The Conversation, 8 Jan. 2025
Uranium miners laid siege to the landscape during the early atomic age, and in the decades since, many dwellings and graves have been looted.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
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Despite their immense size, these gentle giants are filter feeders, primarily consuming plankton, small fish, and other tiny organisms by swimming with their mouths open to filter food from the water.—
Melissa Cristina Marquez,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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Those in-the-moment progressions can feel tiny and barely perceptible from one session to the next.—
Cindy Kuzma,
SELF,
16 Jan. 2025
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Last season saw the 27-year-old continue his steady production at the plate, lowering his already impressive strikeout rate to a minuscule 10.3 percent.—
Kristen Waggoner,
Newsweek,
21 Jan. 2025
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That's minuscule on an everyday scale, but on the microscopic scale of nuclear physics that is a very large amount indeed.—
David Szondy,
New Atlas,
15 Jan. 2025
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These supergiant crustaceans produce a small number of eggs — only in the hundreds — which hatch as miniature versions of the adults, Sidabalok said.—
Julianna Bragg,
CNN,
17 Jan. 2025
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Setting aside the delightful incongruity between the coach who once promised to bite off peoples’ kneecaps and his miniature companions, the fourth-down factor is a big part of what makes the Lions Must-See TV.—
Anthony Crupi,
Sportico.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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Now, for the first time, researchers have watched the opening choreography of this microscopic dance by inducing endosymbiosis in the lab.—
Molly Herring,
WIRED,
26 Jan. 2025
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Finally, nature’s hidden secrets are shown in the microscopic world of the Close-up Photographer of the Year competition: see the winning images here.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN,
25 Jan. 2025
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“Atomic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/atomic. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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