variants also pocket-sized
as in small
of a size that is less than average a pocket-size country in the Pyrenees

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Recent Examples of pocket-size Today, pocket-size family farmsteads on the canyon floor, often tucked against sheer walls, coexist with the ancient ruins and rock art. Derek M. Norman, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025 Grilled Cheese at Cocina Consuelo Nearly everything on the menu at this colorful, pocket-size Hamilton Heights restaurant is a little bit of a revelation. Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024 The 160-page, pocket-size book — which in customary Michelin style includes a detachable city map — signals the growing stature of Detroit in the tourism industry. Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 11 Dec. 2024 The pocket-size restaurant, with only a few seats, is run by husband-and-wife team Yuichiro and Mika Shimatani, who previously worked at the three-star AM by Alexandre Mazzia in Marseille—Yuichiro as a sous-chef and Mika as a pastry chef. Ann Abel, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for pocket-size
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pocket-size
Adjective
  • To meet rising demand, companies sprang up and began churning out rides – smaller versions for traveling carnivals and larger ones for town squares and amusement parks.
    Christopher Cann, USA Today, 26 May 2025
  • The second season of HBO's zombie smash ends with battles both big and small, a major death, and a time rewind.
    Sara Netzley, EW.com, 26 May 2025
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  • Their double act had begun at secondary school, in North London, where Mulcahy protected the diminutive Duffy from bullies.
    Sarah Beckwith, New Yorker, 26 May 2025
  • With that hardware, the diminutive DGX Spark will produce 1,000 trillion operations per second (TOPS) when working on AI tasks, vastly outperforming consumer AI PCs' 40-50 TOPS.
    Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 24 May 2025
Adjective
  • Mia said she was kept off-kilter working around the clock for Combs with little sleep.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 30 May 2025
  • The cuts could include the elimination of bus routes that get relatively little use and less frequent service on some popular routes.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2025

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“Pocket-size.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pocket-size. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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