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It dislodged Pisa in the western Mediterranean, whittled away at Venice’s hold on eastern ports, and set up colonies on the Black Sea for trade with Russia and faraway Cathay.
By the time of the Spanish–American War of 1898, the Spanish empire of the Golden Age had been whittled to insignificance.
The tiny black dress of a scrawny girl at a party exposes thin whittled legs ending in vast square-toed ankle boots just perfect for hiking over miles of Himalayan glacier or surviving in the trenches during World War I. Delicate pumps would never set off her frame as well as these monsters do.
Responding to FACA's ambiguities, the courts have whittled down the law.
Polling has whittled politics into a science, and money has monstrously deflated the importance of grassroots support.