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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The number of people who believe the president would have done better than Harris is vanishingly small.
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Niall Stanage, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2024
In 2018, for example, a chimpanzee in Uganda gave birth to an albino baby, a vanishingly rare occurrence in the species.
—Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
This watch is offered by Analog/Shift, and represents a vanishingly rare opportunity to own not only a piece of Breitling history, but of Italian military history as well.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2024
Still, the Ripon event represented a kind of across-the-aisle collaboration that has become vanishingly rare in American politics.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2024
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Niall Stanage, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2024
In 2018, for example, a chimpanzee in Uganda gave birth to an albino baby, a vanishingly rare occurrence in the species.
—Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
This watch is offered by Analog/Shift, and represents a vanishingly rare opportunity to own not only a piece of Breitling history, but of Italian military history as well.
—Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2024
Still, the Ripon event represented a kind of across-the-aisle collaboration that has become vanishingly rare in American politics.
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Vanishingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vanishingly. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.
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