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Recent Examples of de minimis What To Know According to a 2024 National Bureau of Economic Research paper, eliminating de minimis could reduce consumer welfare by up to $13 billion each year, with lower-income households feeling the greatest impact. Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025 The de minimis exemption—a tariff loophole that for years made millions of direct-to-consumer imports duty free—is gone, and its end marks a structural shift for American shoppers and logistics providers. Nino Paoli, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2025 Since 2015, the de minimis exception has applied to goods with a retail value of less than $800. Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025 Even Amazon has benefited from de minimis. Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for de minimis
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Adjective
  • Patrick addressed the tension between his team and the Lions after the game, taking a slight jab at the way Detroit behaves on the field.
    Natasha Dye, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • In more recent trading, there was a slight recovery that brought values back over 65 cents.
    SJ Guest Editorial, Sourcing Journal, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Drake sought nominal, compensatory, and punitive damages, plus legal fees.
    Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
  • However, at least 23 countries in sub-Saharan Africa are in debt distress or at high risk of distress, the World Bank’s recent assessment noted, with public debt in nominal terms and as a share of GDP nearly doubling over the last decade.
    Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The current event also looks to be weak, meaning the Pacific’s temperature anomalies are relatively small, but not entirely insignificant.
    Hayleigh Evans, AZCentral.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • The asking price is understood to be in the mid-six figures, which isn’t an insignificant amount.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Who among us hasn’t fantasized in the shower about exacting elaborate revenge for petty upsets, or lain awake trying to reframe our humiliations as epic tales of triumph?
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Strahinja Jokic, 43, was sentenced to a year of probation on the misdemeanor and petty offenses, according to the Denver district attorney’s office.
    Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Such matters were neither trivial nor flighty.
    David Folkenflik, NPR, 16 Oct. 2025
  • This would involve assessing what the fate of the wood without intervention—and that’s no trivial feat.
    Syris Valentine, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025

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“De minimis.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/de%20minimis. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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