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Recent Examples of insignificantly
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.
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Big Think, 3 Mar. 2026
Big Think, 3 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for insignificantly
Adverb
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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.—
Guy German,
The Conversation,
18 June 2026
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Coming up with materials that will do that work is actually the easy part; turning them into the microscopically-thin film of a solar sail is the real challenge.—
Kiona N. Smith,
Space.com,
31 May 2026
Adverb
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The dozens of edits that Congress made have been minutely examined by historians and literary scholars.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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Its standout feature is its hyper-deformable wheels, minutely structured from silicone, composite, and stainless steel, which create a soft, enlarged contact surface with the terrain.—
Tim Barber,
Wired News,
14 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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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.—
Gary Sernovitz,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
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Even then, an opponent might be infinitesimally more precise.—
Drew Goins,
The Atlantic,
19 May 2026
Adverb
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Something internal shifted, almost imperceptibly but irreversibly.—
Chiara Barzini,
Vogue,
9 May 2026
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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.—
Alan Bradley,
Space.com,
8 May 2026
Adverb
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And three of them — Laurie Canter, Peter Uihlein and Caleb Surratt — just barely made it after finishing right on the cutline at 4 over.—
Matt Schubert,
New York Times,
20 June 2026
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The uncomfortable truth here is that whether anyone is keeping that eye depends on which level of government prevails, and the contest has barely begun.—
Dara-Abasi Ita,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2026
Adverb
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Honey is minimally processed compared to refined white sugar and may offer modest health benefits.—
T'Keyah Bazin,
Verywell Health,
10 June 2026
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The raw food diet emphasizes eating uncooked and minimally processed foods.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
10 June 2026
Adverb
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Yet somewhere, invisibly, the horizon had contracted.—
Adam Kirsch,
The Atlantic,
15 June 2026
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The influence often occurs invisibly.—
Joseph Andrew,
Forbes.com,
13 June 2026
Adverb
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The launch was scarcely announced in advance.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
22 June 2026
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Although Homer does not say so, enslaved women in a royal house would scarcely have had the power to refuse male visitors, even so surly a bunch as the suitors.—
David Denby,
New Yorker,
21 June 2026
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“Insignificantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insignificantly. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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