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Recent Examples of minuscule With his snug corset and unsubtle make-up and minuscule shorts to which are fastened fishnet stockings, Curry’s kooky scientist with a penchant for brewing male lovers in his lab is one of pop-culture’s unlikely icons. Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2026 Yields briefly dipped but went back up a day later as the $4 billion size of the buybacks is minuscule compared to the $32 trillion Treasury market. Jason Ma, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026 Excess potassium, including the minuscule amounts of potassium-40, is excreted. Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026 The film was made for a minuscule $750,000 before marketing costs. Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for minuscule
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Adjective
  • Atoms under a chip The QGI is rather tiny and relies on microwave and magnetic pulses.
    Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The singer-songwriter, who is currently on tour, mainly resides at a rural compound just outside of Framlingham, the tiny historic town where he was raised.
    Katie Schultz, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2026
Adjective
  • The next step will connect microscopic damage with the properties that matter most for fusion magnets.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026
  • This is when impacts of objects ranging in size from microscopic micrometeorites to large asteroids, turns over the regolith, mixing it all up including the radioactive supernova debris.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 2 Sep. 2026

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“Minuscule.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minuscule. Accessed 15 Sep. 2026.

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