vanishingly
adverb
van·ish·ing·ly
ˈva-ni-shiŋ-lē 
: so as to be almost nonexistent or invisible
the difference is vanishingly small
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Given how vanishingly few transgender athletes there are, and how many voters pointed to other policy issues as greater priorities, a rational person might have been confused.
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Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
It’s been known for decades that diverse rodent species harbor cocci, mostly without showing symptoms, and the soil in rodent burrows is much more likely to test positive than random soil samples, where spores are vanishingly rare.
—Bymeredith Wadman, science.org, 16 Jan. 2025
For all that, any one person’s odds of dying in an air disaster are vanishingly small—about one in 13.7 million according to a 2024 study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 11 Feb. 2025
Geologists are frustrated by the vanishingly small amounts of material that have survived since Earth’s formation 4.56 billion years ago, says Aaron Cavosie, a geologist at Curtin University who studies ancient minerals.
—Byrachel Berkowitz, science.org, 6 Feb. 2025
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Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
It’s been known for decades that diverse rodent species harbor cocci, mostly without showing symptoms, and the soil in rodent burrows is much more likely to test positive than random soil samples, where spores are vanishingly rare.
—Bymeredith Wadman, science.org, 16 Jan. 2025
For all that, any one person’s odds of dying in an air disaster are vanishingly small—about one in 13.7 million according to a 2024 study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
—Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 11 Feb. 2025
Geologists are frustrated by the vanishingly small amounts of material that have survived since Earth’s formation 4.56 billion years ago, says Aaron Cavosie, a geologist at Curtin University who studies ancient minerals.
—Byrachel Berkowitz, science.org, 6 Feb. 2025
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“Vanishingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vanishingly. Accessed 2 Mar. 2025.
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