as in minuscule
very small in size
a soft drink with only an infinitesimal amount of caffeine
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Recent Examples of infinitesimal
No, the expedition hadn’t deployed underwater video, and the chances would have been infinitesimal anyway.
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Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
The movie’s physicality, at its most vital, is infinitesimal.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2024
And then there’s the plague of microplastics, those infinitesimal bits that end up in our bodies, the soil, everywhere.
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 16 Aug. 2024
The human brain can’t even comprehend the infinitesimal amount the creators of most songs earn per stream.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 31 July 2024
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Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
The movie’s physicality, at its most vital, is infinitesimal.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2024
And then there’s the plague of microplastics, those infinitesimal bits that end up in our bodies, the soil, everywhere.
—Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 16 Aug. 2024
The human brain can’t even comprehend the infinitesimal amount the creators of most songs earn per stream.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 31 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infinitesimal
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The minuscule creature is a baby from the species Neolithodes agassizii, a type of king crab.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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Riggs won reelection by 734 votes — a minuscule margin of victory that was confirmed by two recounts.Doug Bock Clark, ProPublica, 8 Jan. 2025
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For what’s known as PM2.5 pollution, or tiny inhalable particles of smoke and dust, a PurpleAir sensor located south of Los Angeles International Airport simultaneously returned on Monday an air quality index of 28 on AirNow’s website, 20 on WatchDuty, and 5 on PurpleAir’s official page.Paresh Dave, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2025
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Despite their immense size, these gentle giants are filter feeders, primarily consuming plankton, small fish, and other tiny organisms by swimming with their mouths open to filter food from the water.Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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Some are visible, such as soil and soot, but others are microscopic. PM 10 and 2.5 are microscopic solid or liquid droplets, up to 30 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair.Dr. Jade Cobern, ABC News, 14 Jan. 2025
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The real world was no longer enough for recent MCU movies so they have been set in microscopic environments on earth and in alternate dimensions filled with floating dragons which are meant to be hidden behind actual waterfalls.Caroline Reid, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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“Infinitesimal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infinitesimal. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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