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as in diminutive
of a size that is less than average a model train carrying Lilliputian figures through a miniature landscape

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Recent Examples of Lilliputian There’s something undeniably charming about a Lilliputian pickle in a glass of gin. Amiel Stanek, Bon Appetit Magazine, 16 June 2025 The Trump administration has been ensnared in a Lilliputian thicket of nationwide injunctions almost since the moment that Donald Trump was sworn in and began issuing executive orders. The Editors, National Review, 19 May 2025 Yet a conflict of sorts did break out on the fringes of the Côte d’Azur in 1963 when France, which surrounds three sides of this sovereign nation of a princely one square mile, demanded that its Lilliputian neighbor accept French taxation. Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 21 Mar. 2025 Slovenia—a Lilliputian nation about the size of New Jersey but with less than a quarter of its population—has many stories to tell. Ellen Ruppel Shell, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Nov. 2024 The Lilliputian sellers regularly fail to do damage when matched with the oblivious index money. Jim Cramer, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2024 Lo trumpets Lilliputian equipment: 1-quart pots; an immersion blender in place of a behemoth; a toaster oven in lieu of a conventional one. Scott Hocker, theweek, 2 Aug. 2024 They’re served in Lilliputian beer steins that look like they were pulled from a doll house. Becky Cooper, New York Times, 7 May 2024 Photograph: Ted Stryk/NASA/SwRI/MSS Yet the relatively small hearts in Lilliputian moons like Enceladus don’t contain enough radioactive matter to keep them toasty for billions of years. WIRED, 24 Dec. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Lilliputian
Adjective
  • In a small bowl, combine the softened butter and garlic and mix well.
    Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 25 July 2025
  • Beyond providing an invitation for music-curious Austinites to come explore the clubs, the festival offers a lifeline to musicians and venues during the slow summer season, when small clubs that support emerging artists face some of their greatest challenges.
    Mars Salazar, Austin American Statesman, 25 July 2025
Adjective
  • Hawkins is the revelation here, a diminutive, hippy-dippy monster.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 21 July 2025
  • Over the past century, however, pollution, invasive species and excessive water pumping have destabilized the ecosystem, pushing the diminutive delta smelt toward extinction.
    Moira Donovan, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 July 2025
Adjective
  • Without wanting to trivialize egregious breaches of sovereignty like the invasion of Ukraine, most are undeniably petty.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 25 July 2025
  • The disappearance of dozens of shopping carts, the closure of self-checkout lanes, and a visible rise in shoplifting, panhandling, loitering and petty crime left customers, managers and officials at City Hall all trading blame.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 22 July 2025
Adjective
  • Since all the council members sit on the budget committee that voted and heard budget, little, if anything, in the budget is expected to change.
    Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 30 July 2025
  • The 2023 impeachment trial of Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, who was acquitted in a Senate impeachment trial on a range of charges including bribery and abuse of office, appeared to have done little to undermine his standing among voters.
    John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
Adjective
  • South suburban committee members, meanwhile, showed parochial loyalty to Kelly.
    Rick Pearson, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2025
  • In a chamber fraught with parochial interests and personalities in spades, the sprint to finish this by the July 4 holiday is going to be clipped.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 22 May 2025
Adjective
  • One nautical mile west of Santorini, opposite the village of Oia and the caldera, lies the tiny island of Therasia, accessible via boat departing from Ammoudi Bay.
    Monica Mendal, Vogue, 15 July 2025
  • The film community of Vancouver Island is tiny compared to the City of Vancouver’s Hollywood North hub.
    Jennie Punter, Variety, 14 July 2025
Adjective
  • But its critics say EA continues to make narrow and curious choices that neglect both systemic issues and the complexly human reasons people give, as a battle for billions rages on.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 24 July 2025
  • That choice is one of the starkest demonstrations that the regime’s priority of narrow self-interest over the global good won’t be changing anytime soon.
    Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 24 July 2025
Adjective
  • Easy to apply and then reapply, the miniature stick tucks into beach bags or backpacks and takes up minimal space.
    Jené Luciani Sena , Caitlyn Martyn may earn a commission if you buy through our referral links. This content was created by a team that works independently from the Fox newsroom., FOXNews.com, 28 July 2025
  • The Paper Plane mixes bourbon and Amaro Nonino, garnished with an adorable miniature paper airplane on the coupe rim.
    David Hochman, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025

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“Lilliputian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Lilliputian. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.

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