A History of Short Words

From the New York Times Crossword Puzzle

AAAS

Sun, 19 Feb '23
Little Energizers, say
Sun, 29 Jan '23
Small batteries
Sun, 17 Jul '22
Little cells
Thu, 2 Jun '22
Small batteries
Sun, 27 Mar '22
Some small batteries
Mon, 18 Oct '21
Penlight batteries
Thu, 24 Jun '21
Some remote inserts