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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Free Fire is a black comedy punctuated entirely with bullets, and Murphy manages to become one of the vanishingly small number of sympathetic characters.
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Danny Horn, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2024
Gerrymandering and the natural sorting of voters between dense urban areas that are heavily Democratic and vast rural districts that are strongly Republican have left vanishingly few in play.
—Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2024
There are vanishingly few people who can bend our current, fragmented internet to their will; the rest of us have to hustle, throwing posts at the wall to see what sticks.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2024
With vanishingly few exceptions, nearly every politician in Washington refuses to countenance major spending reform.
—David Harsanyi, National Review, 14 Sep. 2023
Of the thousands of striking film and television actors who are members of SAG-AFTRA, vanishingly few will ever see their name on the marquee of a multiplex or listed at #1 on a call sheet.
—Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
Even if the performance bar is set far below that of a tape drive, any commercial operation based on reading and writing data into DNA will have a throughput many times that of today’s DNA synthesis industry, with a vanishingly small cost per base.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024
Successful methods to get rid of criminal regimes are desperately needed but vanishingly rare.
—Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2024
The chance that either of them can overtake Donald Trump for the nomination looked vanishingly small after Monday’s voting.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024
Danny Horn, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2024
Gerrymandering and the natural sorting of voters between dense urban areas that are heavily Democratic and vast rural districts that are strongly Republican have left vanishingly few in play.
—Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2024
There are vanishingly few people who can bend our current, fragmented internet to their will; the rest of us have to hustle, throwing posts at the wall to see what sticks.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2024
With vanishingly few exceptions, nearly every politician in Washington refuses to countenance major spending reform.
—David Harsanyi, National Review, 14 Sep. 2023
Of the thousands of striking film and television actors who are members of SAG-AFTRA, vanishingly few will ever see their name on the marquee of a multiplex or listed at #1 on a call sheet.
—Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
Even if the performance bar is set far below that of a tape drive, any commercial operation based on reading and writing data into DNA will have a throughput many times that of today’s DNA synthesis industry, with a vanishingly small cost per base.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024
Successful methods to get rid of criminal regimes are desperately needed but vanishingly rare.
—Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2024
The chance that either of them can overtake Donald Trump for the nomination looked vanishingly small after Monday’s voting.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024
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“Vanishingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vanishingly. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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