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noun

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Adjective
  • This is one of the places where people get micro and macro mixed up.
    John T. Harvey, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • But, if even a basic French manicure is still a little too much for you, the micro French will be your new go-to.
    Kleigh Balugo, StyleCaster, 26 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • By finally publishing it in the party’s flagship journal, the inference is that none of the intervening turmoil has made China’s leadership alter course one iota.
    Charlie Campbell, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The Standard & Poor’s 500 finished an iota higher, less than 0.1%, after surrendering virtually all of its early gain of 0.9%.
    Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Plus, gone are the days of worrying about not having enough sink space in a tiny hotel bathroom.
    Hannah Freedman, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Nearby in the tiny, no-stoplight community of Leslie, Arkansas, which gets water from the Ozark system, the only dentist in town operates out of a one-man clinic tucked in the back of an antique store.
    Brett Kelman, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The amount of money Ms. Gibson is trying to save is minuscule.
    Naperville Sun, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2025
  • However, while these young people strive toward the high-profile greatness of the big leagues, the number who actually go on to play professionally is minuscule, with just 2% of NCAA student athletes reaching that status.
    Chris Moore, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • To those that have already made their mind up about migrants and Muslims, Fall’s film won’t make a jot of difference.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Rocketbook Core Reusable Spiral Notebook On Sale 9% off $31 Buy Now on Amazon $22 Buy Now on target For the one who takes the nicest notes and jots down pretty much everything, get them a more sustainable option.
    Mia Maguire, StyleCaster, 11 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Here, the director of some of the most voluble of all films exalts immediate experience and rarefied perception to grand historical dimensions—Oliveira condenses a lifetime of artistic striving into infinitesimal flourishes of overwhelming power.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The human brain can’t even comprehend the infinitesimal amount the creators of most songs earn per stream.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • What was genuinely surprising, though, was that, in addition to his usual target of California, the emergency order also singled out the Northeast — a region that’s a smidgen short of solidly blue but one that usually avoids Trump vitriol.
    Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Gray apparently had no one even a smidgen better to put in charge of liaising with FEMA, NWS and LAFD but… Seth.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • During a bloom, environmental conditions cause microscopic phytoplankton to proliferate.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
  • After a year of fastidious planning, a microscopic sample of the ultra-rare radioactive element berkelium arrived at a Berkeley Lab.
    Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
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“Minim.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minim. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.

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