Does the image of using a howitzer to kill a gnat come to mind?

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The White House's recent dismissal of the Venezuelan dictator as a "gnat" is exactly the right approach.

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Contrast that with Price, who can hit a gnat on the inside corner with a 98 mph fastball.

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But it is the Folland Gnat, also known as Gnaty, which is set to star at the show.

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Second, I have the attention span of a gnat, so I am the last person who should be developing anything.

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Carmack, the 38-year-old multimillionaire software whiz behind the videogames Doom and Quake, is a pesky gnat among the do-it-yourself rocketeering crowd.

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The latest consumer electronics device seems to hold its novelty these days for about as long as a gnat can concentrate.

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"Synchronous to within a gnat's eyebrow" according to Professor Paul Renne from the Berkeley Geochronology Centre, who argues that the asteroid clearly played a major role in global extinctions.

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"Someone once said Dan has the attention span of a gnat, " says Edward Eskandarian, chief executive of Arnold Communications, the Boston agency known for its clever Volkswagen ads, acquired by Snyder in March 1998.

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Once derided by critics as an example of society's increasingly gnat-like attention span, the site's 140-character limit has in many cases inspired users to be as witty, insightful or informative as they can be in as few words as possible.

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