How to Use de minimis in a Sentence

de minimis

adjective

• The use of de minimis has put a dent in tariff revenues, which go to the U.S. Treasury.
  — Josh Zumbrun, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2022
• Often, this means that the incentive must be de minimis.
  — Tom Spiggle, Forbes, 25 June 2021
• And those, says Bahnfleth, are still sort of de minimis rather than extreme.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 9 Nov. 2020
• Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says the effects of the new tariffs are de minimis.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2018
• Such bulk orders are not de minimis, as container loads will cost over $800.
  — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
• The volume of products coming into the U.S. that benefit from the de minimis rule has soared in recent years.
  — Kevin Freking, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023
• But prices under $97.50 are below the de minimis threshold, so your return on this bond will take a bigger tax hit.
  — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
• Crypto advocates want the IRS to allow a de minimis exemption—say of $200 of gain—but the agency hasn’t budged.
  — Laura Saunders, WSJ, 14 May 2021
• This one bequest, though, will make a de minimis difference to inequality in the world.
  — New York Times, 23 Nov. 2021
• But don’t discount the odds that Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer will use even de minimis permitting changes as a bargaining chip for more spending.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 5 Aug. 2022
• Another exception is the de minimis exception if the buyback is less than $1 million in a year.
  — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
• Judges don’t want to see these de minimis marijuana cases.
  — Washington Post, 3 Jan. 2020
• The de minimis level allows states to lower revenues by 1 percent of the baseline year without triggering the clawback.
  — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 23 June 2021
• Food stamps already has a de minimis work rule for some participants, but states have applied for waivers and exemptions that have diluted it.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 Apr. 2018
• Shein, on its end, surprisingly agrees that the de minimis exemption should be updated.
  — Nana Ama Sarfo, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• There's also a de minimis exclusion for jurisdictions where MNEs have revenues of less than €10 million and profits of less than €1 million.
  — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
• And in some other states, there is a de minimis exemption for tangible personal property, meaning that tax is not owed on items with a small value.
  — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• Companies can also take advantage of the de minimis rule using ocean shipping, which is cheaper than airfreight.
  — Josh Zumbrun, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2022
• The de minimis regulation requires minimal data on shipping forms, meaning the true identity of the sender is easy to obscure.
  — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 20 June 2022
• As de minimis went from trivial to substantial, the Census Bureau’s official trade statistics didn’t change to reflect this.
  — Josh Zumbrun, WSJ, 17 June 2022
• Applying the de minimis standard, Levin said, also removes the burden on an applicant to prove that there is no viable alternative that would be less harmful to the water.
  — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Sep. 2021
• Senate Democrats refused in the talks to make more than de minimis changes to ObamaCare’s waiver process to give states more regulatory flexibility.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2017
• In 1977, the court defined such a hardship as an accommodation that would place more than a minimal burden or ‘’de minimis cost,’’ on the company’s operations.
  — Ann E. Marimow, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
• Meanwhile, bigger solutions—such as a de minimis exemption for small transactions or an amnesty for low level transgressions—will have to come from Congress.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 29 July 2019
• Such decisions reflect an understanding of the enormous economic cost and de minimis impact on global climate change that would result from those policies.
  — Wayne Winegarden, National Review, 10 Feb. 2022
• In mid-June, two bipartisan bills were introduced to exempt China from de minimis trade, a rule that allows foreign countries to avoid paying tariffs on packages valued under $800.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 28 June 2023
• Are ‘adverse financial consequences’ required to be substantial, or is a de minimis loss (e.g., $100) sufficient to permit a withdrawal?
  — Alex Mann, Baltimore Sun, 8 Sep. 2023
• This big-picture perspective on the enormous trading volumes establishes that the short interest can have played a most a minor supporting role in January, de minimis in February.
  — George Calhoun, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
• Now, the Supreme Court says interpreting Hardison primarily through the de minimis standard interpretation is a mistake.
  — Sanya Mansoor, Time, 29 June 2023
• In 1977, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that an employer need not accommodate an employee’s religious practice if the employer demonstrates that doing so would impose more than a de minimis, meaning trivial, cost on the employer or coworkers.
  — Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024