as in tiny
very small in size
a wee baby
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Recent Examples of wee
Across six albums, including the most recent—2024’s Rock Machine—the seven-member La Femme assembled an energetic mix of punk, new wave, psychedelic surf rock, krautrock, and indie pop that felt like a house mix that could spin until the wee hours of any major club.
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Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 14 Apr. 2026
Since your students for this gig are likely to be in China, Brazil and other foreign countries, work hours tend to be in the wee hours of the morning.
—Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2026
The Senate voted in the wee hours of the morning to extend the program, but only for two years.
—Arkansas Online, 12 Apr. 2026
The next day, Bree and Roger head to Fergus’ (César Domboy) house, where wee little Henri Christian (Benjamin Moss) is playing with a frog on the front stoop.
—Lincee Ray, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Apr. 2026
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Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 14 Apr. 2026
Since your students for this gig are likely to be in China, Brazil and other foreign countries, work hours tend to be in the wee hours of the morning.
—Kathy Kristof, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2026
The Senate voted in the wee hours of the morning to extend the program, but only for two years.
—Arkansas Online, 12 Apr. 2026
The next day, Bree and Roger head to Fergus’ (César Domboy) house, where wee little Henri Christian (Benjamin Moss) is playing with a frog on the front stoop.
—Lincee Ray, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Apr. 2026
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What last Friday’s 5-0 win away to Sunderland might have done for Pereira is give him just a tiny bit more freedom; the opportunity to go slightly stronger with his team selections in these two games against Villa, either side of a still-vital trip to Chelsea on Monday.—
Jacob Tanswell,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2026
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The technique used to measure the singularities’ velocity could open the door to studying other tiny, fast phenomena in physics, chemistry and biology—or perhaps to find new ways to encode quantum information in materials, according to the researchers.—
Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
30 Apr. 2026
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Those figures, combined with much more existential climate crises like extreme weather, pollution and food insecurity, make eliminating a tour’s worth of plastic feel minuscule.—
Ethan Millman,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Apr. 2026
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But in minuscule quantum systems, there is an element of outside control.—
Stephanie Pappas,
Scientific American,
21 Apr. 2026
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“Wee.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wee. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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