as in tiny
very small in size
public health officials have claimed that the chemical is harmless in such minuscule amounts
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Other than minuscule amounts of state funding in some cases and a smattering of private donations, tribal colleges that lose any federal funding have few other sources of income.
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Matt Krupnick, ProPublica, 10 Mar. 2025
The birds are already minuscule and delicate, and many of the ones Masear works with are babies whose mothers have disappeared or died, which puts them in even greater peril.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
So far, only government space agencies from the United States and Japan have brought minuscule samples from asteroids back to Earth at the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 25 Feb. 2025
The academy’s two-pronged goal is to diversify the ranks of archeologists, a minuscule fraction of whom are Black, and to include people from across the diaspora in the study of its history.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
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Matt Krupnick, ProPublica, 10 Mar. 2025
The birds are already minuscule and delicate, and many of the ones Masear works with are babies whose mothers have disappeared or died, which puts them in even greater peril.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
So far, only government space agencies from the United States and Japan have brought minuscule samples from asteroids back to Earth at the cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.
—Jackie Wattles, CNN, 25 Feb. 2025
The academy’s two-pronged goal is to diversify the ranks of archeologists, a minuscule fraction of whom are Black, and to include people from across the diaspora in the study of its history.
—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
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“Minuscule.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minuscule. Accessed 8 Apr. 2025.
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