as in tiny
very small in size
public health officials have claimed that the chemical is harmless in such minuscule amounts
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Recent Examples of minuscule
The structure of these first-track tournaments will not resemble the current signature events, which include approximately 70 players and minuscule cuts, if any at all.
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Brody Miller, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
With no functional magnetosphere, Mars’ surface radiation is nearly as intense as in deep space, and the paper-thin atmosphere provides little protection from even minuscule meteorites.
—Big Think, 19 Feb. 2026
Okawara sculpted Beyoncé's nails into a long almond shape with a neutral base color, then detailed each nail with its own minuscule design.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 17 Feb. 2026
The three quarks that form protons only contribute a minuscule amount of mass—the other 99 percent is thought to arise from interactions between these real quarks and swarms of virtual quarks in the vacuum.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 4 Feb. 2026
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Brody Miller, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
With no functional magnetosphere, Mars’ surface radiation is nearly as intense as in deep space, and the paper-thin atmosphere provides little protection from even minuscule meteorites.
—Big Think, 19 Feb. 2026
Okawara sculpted Beyoncé's nails into a long almond shape with a neutral base color, then detailed each nail with its own minuscule design.
—Kara Nesvig, Allure, 17 Feb. 2026
The three quarks that form protons only contribute a minuscule amount of mass—the other 99 percent is thought to arise from interactions between these real quarks and swarms of virtual quarks in the vacuum.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 4 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for minuscule
Adjective
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The plot pivots on tiny gestures involving matters of life and death.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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Each impact steals a tiny bit of the spacecraft’s speed, pushing it a smidgen closer to Earth.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
26 Mar. 2026
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However, their progress has been hindered by dendrites—microscopic metallic filaments that grow on the electrolyte and trigger short circuits.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
25 Mar. 2026
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Amid this vast landscape of solutions, no one can hope to find a precise microscopic configuration that undergirds our particular macroscopic world.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
23 Mar. 2026
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“Minuscule.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minuscule. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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