as in microscopically
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Recent Examples of infinitesimally
The company used this speed advantage (and, later, similar ones) to profit from infinitesimally brief pricing differences between exchanges, all while fulfilling clients’ orders to buy and sell on those exchanges.
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Gary Sernovitz,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
Even then, an opponent might be infinitesimally more precise.
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Drew Goins,
The Atlantic,
19 May 2026
At this time, experts say, only a handful of laboratories in the United States have a way to detect the infinitesimally tiny particles.
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Sandee Lamotte,
CNN Money,
2 Apr. 2026
Each loop is then placed in an infinitesimally tiny well in a microchip, which can have 25 million of those wells.
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IEEE Spectrum,
2 Oct. 2025
These ultra-sensitive sensors can detect infinitesimally small traces of magnetic and gravitational signals from within the earth.
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Paul Smith-Goodson,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
Gary Sernovitz,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
Even then, an opponent might be infinitesimally more precise.
—
Drew Goins,
The Atlantic,
19 May 2026
At this time, experts say, only a handful of laboratories in the United States have a way to detect the infinitesimally tiny particles.
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Sandee Lamotte,
CNN Money,
2 Apr. 2026
Each loop is then placed in an infinitesimally tiny well in a microchip, which can have 25 million of those wells.
—
IEEE Spectrum,
2 Oct. 2025
These ultra-sensitive sensors can detect infinitesimally small traces of magnetic and gravitational signals from within the earth.
—
Paul Smith-Goodson,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for infinitesimally
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The only natural safeguard your body has against UV light is a microscopically thin layer of a pigment called melanin in your epidermis.
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The only natural safeguard your body has against UV light is a microscopically thin layer of a pigment called melanin in your epidermis.
Adverb
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Something internal shifted, almost imperceptibly but irreversibly.
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They'd be heralded not by rippling explosions or flash frozen corpses floating against a tapestry of stars, but instead by oxygen, almost imperceptibly slipping away or radiation slowly accumulating in our cells over years.
Adverb
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The dozens of edits that Congress made have been minutely examined by historians and literary scholars.
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According to François Godard, a media and telecoms analyst at Enders Analysis, the $71B Disney-Fox deal from late last decade, which was waved through by the EU but examined minutely, sets the closest recent precedent for Hollywood M&A in the continent.
Adverb
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While these might seem insignificantly small compared to the average density, gravitation causes the overdense regions to grow and attract matter into them over time, while the underdense regions similarly give up their matter to their more dense surroundings.
Adverb
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If senior judgment matters more than ever, why not just hire it full-time instead of fractionally?
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Shares of Netflix are trading fractionally lower this year and have plunged 15% since Thursday.
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“Infinitesimally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infinitesimally. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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