How to Use vanishingly in a Sentence

vanishingly

adverb
  • That makes for a tight race for a vanishingly small portion of roles.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 28 May 2024
  • Magnetars are tiny in the scheme of space—just about 12 miles across—and vanishingly rare in the Milky Way, at maybe just a few dozen.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 16 June 2022
  • The list of rap artists who have stayed at the top of their game into the second half of their forties is vanishingly short.
    Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The odds that the 36-year-old is going to be a contributor on the next good Jazz team are just vanishingly small.
    Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Oct. 2022
  • The other was captured in February of this year, and the amount of sea ice is vanishingly small.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2023
  • And the answer to that question is - is vanishingly small.
    CBS News, 30 June 2024
  • Good news, these past four years, has been vanishingly sparse, like a handful of lilies in a fallow field.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2020
  • This is vanishingly small, even in a world where re-entries are numbered in the hundreds per year.
    The Economist, 10 Aug. 2019
  • And old growth already is vanishingly rare in the province — and going fast.
    Lynda V. Mapes, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Jupiter sped the spacecraft up by thousands of miles per hour and Cassini, in turn, slowed Jupiter’s orbit down by a vanishingly tiny amount.
    TIME.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • But high school and college math — even a lot of graduate school math — is a vanishingly small part of the overall knowledge.
    Quanta Magazine, 1 Oct. 2020
  • But the plan to erect the concrete berm on the pristine beach, a vanishingly rare commodity in Japan, is not just about money or votes.
    New York Times, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Roundabouts were vanishingly rare in the United States back then.
    Andrew Van Dam, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Nov. 2022
  • In contrast to the climate crisis, vanishingly few people think the child care crisis is a hoax.
    Elliot Haspel, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The chances that Cannizzaro would do so seemed vanishingly small.
    New York Times, 30 June 2021
  • But the chance of Trump winning the popular vote outright is vanishingly small.
    Damon Linker, TheWeek, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Despite being the fourth most abundant element in the Earth’s crust, iron is vanishingly scarce in the modern ocean.
    Emily Underwood, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Jan. 2020
  • Tungsten meanwhile comes from a vanishingly small number of mines, many of which are in China.
    David Axe, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The good news is that, in contrast to the personal impact on Neymar, the consequences for Brazil will be vanishingly small.
    Rory Smith, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The odds of dealing with both a brain parasite and mercury poisoning at the same time seem vanishingly rare.
    David Cox, WIRED, 9 May 2024
  • Of course, the likelihood of one person winning it all is vanishingly small.
    Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2022
  • The structures etched on these microchips are vanishingly small.
    Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The film also feels like something vanishingly rare these days: a big-screen drama with budget and scope, richly told for grown adults.
    Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 8 Oct. 2021
  • While instances of voter fraud in U.S. elections are vanishingly rare, this is the latest scheme to rock a high school election in recent years.
    Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
  • These stories are noteworthy because the odds of being in precisely the wrong place at the wrong time are vanishingly slim.
    Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
  • Voter fraud is vanishingly small, less than your chance of being struck by lightning.
    Caitlin Rublee and René Settle-Robinson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The number of people that are likely to be affected by this is vanishingly small.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2021
  • For now, though, the chances of a high income earner being audited by the IRS remain vanishingly low.
    Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Likewise, the risk of any one whale being struck by a vessel is vanishingly small, yet vessel strikes are the second most common cause of injury and death to right whales.
    Time, 11 Jan. 2023
  • However, because of global warming, there are vanishingly few cities and countries that can host the Winter Olympics.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 24 July 2024

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