as in slight
so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention
investors disappointed by stock dividends that were decidedly de minimis
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Recent Examples of de minimis
The de minimis tax exemption allows shipments headed to U.S. businesses and consumers valued at less than $800 to enter the country tax and duty free.
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Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2025
However, just a few days later, the Trump administration paused de minimis as packages rapidly piled up at customs.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
Meanwhile, the longstanding de minimis rule, which allowed shipments of less than $800 to avoid import duties and taxes, has ended, per U.S. Customs and Border Protection in guidance posted Saturday on Trump's executive order.
—Sareen Habeshian, Axios, 5 Feb. 2025
Temu and Shein have previously said their business models don’t rely on de minimis.
—Annie Palmer, CNBC, 5 Feb. 2025
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Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2025
However, just a few days later, the Trump administration paused de minimis as packages rapidly piled up at customs.
—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
Meanwhile, the longstanding de minimis rule, which allowed shipments of less than $800 to avoid import duties and taxes, has ended, per U.S. Customs and Border Protection in guidance posted Saturday on Trump's executive order.
—Sareen Habeshian, Axios, 5 Feb. 2025
Temu and Shein have previously said their business models don’t rely on de minimis.
—Annie Palmer, CNBC, 5 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for de minimis
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Here, again, there were slight differences in the responses when broken down by party affiliation.—
Brendan Rascius,
Miami Herald,
20 Mar. 2025
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Like the inclusion of the new music, the omission of the prince storyline shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who has been paying even the slightest attention to the controversies plaguing the production of Snow White for the past few years.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
20 Mar. 2025
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Here’s why: Although technical specifications are still being worked out, the new standard could deliver nominal peak data rates of more than 40Gbps.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
20 Mar. 2025
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According to expert estimates, India needs to spend around $100 billion per year, or 2.8% of current nominal GDP, to achieve net-zero power sector emissions by 2070.—
Radhika Kak, independent researcher at Harvard Business School and Varad Pande, partner at BCG,
CNBC,
20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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His drunk mother-in-law, Nan (Jane Curtin), takes too long to share too much insignificant information.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
20 Mar. 2025
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No matter how insignificant our individual choices may appear, our choices matter.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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That sketch, coming just before the episode’s closing performance by Cypress Hill, was the hour’s peak, containing all the promise of petty obsessions afforded airtime in a chorus of besuited actors shouting a monologue as one.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
13 Mar. 2025
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This isn’t to say the vigilante trans group in the new world is free of petty catfights.—
Grace Byron,
Vulture,
11 Mar. 2025
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What’s at risk The impact of an output such as calling a blueberry muffin a chihuahua may seem trivial, but consider the different kinds of technologies that use image recognition systems: An autonomous vehicle that fails to identify objects could lead to a fatal traffic accident.—
Anna Choi,
The Conversation,
21 Mar. 2025
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The under-the-table payments at the center of the case, which involved sums of up to $100,000, now seem trivial in comparison to the rapidly escalating figures involved in today’s NIL economy.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
13 Mar. 2025
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“De minimis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/de%20minimis. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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