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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In this region, stellar populations are sparse, and stars with the necessary mass needed to go supernova and to birth a neutron star at the heart of a pulsar should be vanishingly rare.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Slight in some respects, Philippe’s 76-minute film resonates as what is today a vanishingly rare first-hand window into the joys, terrors and vagaries of Hollywood’s golden age.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 1 Sep. 2025
However, that's a vanishingly small fraction of the Android ecosystem outside of China.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2025
And, turns out, that the number of studies that have actually tried to test that essential assumption of the Zahavi principle is vanishingly few.
—Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2025
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Slight in some respects, Philippe’s 76-minute film resonates as what is today a vanishingly rare first-hand window into the joys, terrors and vagaries of Hollywood’s golden age.
—Guy Lodge, Variety, 1 Sep. 2025
However, that's a vanishingly small fraction of the Android ecosystem outside of China.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2025
And, turns out, that the number of studies that have actually tried to test that essential assumption of the Zahavi principle is vanishingly few.
—Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2025
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“Vanishingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vanishingly. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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