Definitions
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- adjective small enough to be carried in a garment pocket
- adjective limited in size or scope
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Examples
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Now, the frequently gathering crowds have become a favored market for street vendors - the young ones striding along the crazy-quilt lanes with triangular fig-filled pastries on their heads, the old and lame offering pocket-size packets of tissues.
A month after revolt, Egyptians march to protect their victory as neighbors demand freedom, too
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Do you carry around a pocket-size French-English dictionary?
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"Mementos: Painted and Photographic Miniatures, 1750-1920" traces the popularity of pocket-size portraits created by greats such as John Singleton Copley and Charles Willson Peale.
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Now, the frequently gathering crowds have become a favored market for street vendors - the young ones striding along the crazy-quilt lanes with triangular fig-filled pastries on their heads, the old and lame offering pocket-size packets of tissues.
A month after revolt, Egyptians march to protect their victory as neighbors demand freedom, too
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Q: Now that Flip is going defunct, are there other pocket-size camcorders worth buying?
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Instead, he brings along either a pocket-size Moleskine notebook or, if the project is already under way, several printed floor plans stuffed into his jeans or jacket pockets.
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We often work through their English curriculum on bilingual poetry chapbooks pocket-size booklets or short stories or oral histories.
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Buff-and-polished Taylor Lautner is pocket-size compared with the looming stature of his werewolf counterpart, Jacob Black.
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Croatia's pocket-size capital is often overlooked for the sun-splashed Adriatic coast.
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Now, the frequently gathering crowds have become a favored market for street vendors - the young ones striding along the crazy-quilt lanes with triangular fig-filled pastries on their heads, the old and lame offering pocket-size packets of tissues.
A month after revolt, Egyptians march to protect their victory as neighbors demand freedom, too
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