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  • adjective comparative form of puny: more puny

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  • Translating all of this into potential GDP growth, Schnapp figures we're looking at a measly 1% to 1.5% for the rest of the year and even punier 1% growth in 2011.

    Dan Dorfman: Lady Dracula's Gory Jobs Story Dan Dorfman 2010

  • Translating all of this into potential GDP growth, Schnapp figures we're looking at a measly 1% to 1.5% for the rest of the year and even punier 1% growth in 2011.

    Dan Dorfman: Lady Dracula's Gory Jobs Story Dan Dorfman 2010

  • Translating all of this into potential GDP growth, Schnapp figures we're looking at a measly 1% to 1.5% for the rest of the year and even punier 1% growth in 2011.

    Dan Dorfman: Lady Dracula's Gory Jobs Story Dan Dorfman 2010

  • Unfortunately it's sold out but you can still order the punier but still delicious gummy bear on a stick.

    Magnificent and powerful The Nag 2009

  • But Fiat is punier still in its home continent, with European share of 6.5% in the third quarter, only enough for seventh place.

    Wheel Turns: Chrysler May Be Fiat Savior Spencer Jakab 2012

  • Translating all of this into potential GDP growth, Schnapp figures we're looking at a measly 1% to 1.5% for the rest of the year and even punier 1% growth in 2011.

    Dan Dorfman: Lady Dracula's Gory Jobs Story Dan Dorfman 2010

  • Translating all of this into potential GDP growth, Schnapp figures we're looking at a measly 1% to 1.5% for the rest of the year and even punier 1% growth in 2011.

    Dan Dorfman: Lady Dracula's Gory Jobs Story Dan Dorfman 2010

  • The administration's 2011 proposal to raise the tax rate on capital gains and dividends to 20% from 15% on upper incomes was estimated to raise an even punier $10.5 billion a year.

    The Spend Now, Tax Later Jobs Bill Alan Reynolds 2011

  • Citing the country's aggressive unions, widening wealth gaps, a faltering education system, low workforce participation and a public sector often paralyzed by bureaucratic red tape, the British magazine recently claimed that Israel's "engines of growth are punier than they look."

    Richard Z. Chesnoff: ISRAEL AT 61: A LESSON TO BE LEARNED 2009

  • If we are to start repealing honors we can begin much closer to home, with much less significant figures and with much punier accomplishments, than with Columbus and the European discovery of the western hemisphere.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Christopher Columbus — Hero or Villain? 2009

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