as in tiny
very small in size
public health officials have claimed that the chemical is harmless in such minuscule amounts
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Recent Examples of minuscule
The committee released 70 new photos, a minuscule number compared to the 95,000 the Democrats have released so far.
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Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 18 Dec. 2025
Further, from this already minuscule amount of parent material, an even smaller fraction of lead-212 is then separated for medical applications.
—Abhishek Bhardwaj, Interesting Engineering, 17 Dec. 2025
Some had true-crime YouTube channels with more than 1 million subscribers; others were newcomers with minuscule audiences, hoping their trial coverage would give their followings a boost.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2025
The birds are already minuscule and delicate, and many of the ones Masear works with are babies whose mothers have disappeared or died, which puts them in even greater peril.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for minuscule
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At the previous World Cup in 2022, hosted by tiny Qatar, all of England’s games were in Doha or just outside that city.—
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Nanotubes are ultra-small cylindrical structures, so tiny that thousands could fit across the width of a human hair.—
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By removing microscopic defects and smoothing the surface, this coating ensures efficient energy flow while preventing the cell from disintegrating under intense heat.—
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Fentanyl is cheap, compact, and lethal at microscopic doses, produced through decentralized networks designed to survive disruption.—
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“Minuscule.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minuscule. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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