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as in small
lacking importance
an insignificant detail that we can safely ignore
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as in slight
so small or unimportant as to warrant little or no attention
the insignificant wear on the doll's face does nothing to diminish its considerable value as an antique
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Recent Examples of insignificant
Aim to make so much money that, relative to your net worth or your annual income, the upgrade price is insignificant.
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Jodie Cook, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
To them, small incidents, insignificant by themselves but damaging in cumulation, began to count against him.
—Richard Amofa, The Athletic, 1 Jan. 2025
The price tags for wellness festivals and summits are far from insignificant, and range greatly: Maldivian SOUL costs $3,200 per night for two adults.
—Caitlin Gunther, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Dec. 2024
Memory that by some arcane law tends to send important things spinning beyond its boundaries into oblivion, while fervently cherishing something insignificant and accidental.
—Andriy Sodomora (tr. Sabrina Jaszi & Roman Ivashkiv), The Dial, 12 Dec. 2024
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Jodie Cook, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
To them, small incidents, insignificant by themselves but damaging in cumulation, began to count against him.
—Richard Amofa, The Athletic, 1 Jan. 2025
The price tags for wellness festivals and summits are far from insignificant, and range greatly: Maldivian SOUL costs $3,200 per night for two adults.
—Caitlin Gunther, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Dec. 2024
Memory that by some arcane law tends to send important things spinning beyond its boundaries into oblivion, while fervently cherishing something insignificant and accidental.
—Andriy Sodomora (tr. Sabrina Jaszi & Roman Ivashkiv), The Dial, 12 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for insignificant
Adjective
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Bad decisions — the kind that can be, if not reversed, at least remedied — are an essential part of adolescence: lapses that teach us about our desires, our impulses, our weaknesses, our essential character, and leave us with no greater damage than a throbbing hangover or a small, smudgy tattoo.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
25 Jan. 2025
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The photo showed small patches of raw, bloody skin on the knuckles of his index, middle and ring fingers on his left hand.—
Daniela Avila,
People.com,
25 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The snow started falling Sunday afternoon, with a slight mix of hail.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
19 Jan. 2025
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That slight warming trend is expected to continue Friday, when high temperatures reach the upper 30s, with lows in the upper teens.—
Matt Hubbard,
Baltimore Sun,
19 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Following a minor car accident in Charlotte, Dalton was sidelined with a thumb injury, and Young returned to the starting lineup.—
Mike Kaye,
Charlotte Observer,
15 Jan. 2025
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The other victims suffered smoke inhalation and other minor injuries.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
15 Jan. 2025
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The object of their largesse was an obscure nonprofit called the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation which, for the better part of two decades, had quietly helped firefighters by raising funds for equipment — often things as nominal as gloves and flashlights — not covered in the city budget.—
David Wharton,
Los Angeles Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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Ever since, however, TCU has started three wings alongside Van Lith and Sedona Prince, once again making the fifth-year senior the nominal point guard.—
Sabreena Merchant,
The Athletic,
20 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The ensuing reply-all showed little sympathy for the ninety-five-year-old school and its community.—
Jessica Winter,
The New Yorker,
18 Jan. 2025
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The summer of 2020 did little to allay those fears: Inexperienced intelligence officers from the agency were deployed to Portland, Ore., to compile dossiers on people protesting against police violence.—
Eileen Sullivan,
New York Times,
18 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Out of a trivial tension, an intimate and unsettling face-to-face confrontation suddenly arises.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
16 Jan. 2025
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Meanwhile, a small (but not trivial) minority of Republican spending hawks has been complaining that current levels of military spending are too high.—
Matthew Yglesias,
Twin Cities,
15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Demonizing the delta smelt was — and is — a way to make facile points to uninformed voters by suggesting that the interests of what appears to be an unimportant fish are somehow elevated above those of human residents.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Jan. 2025
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Again, there’s a moon get-out clause here; our natural satellite is so bright that the size of the objective lens is less unimportant.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Despite their immense size, these gentle giants are filter feeders, primarily consuming plankton, small fish, and other tiny organisms by swimming with their mouths open to filter food from the water.—
Melissa Cristina Marquez,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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Those in-the-moment progressions can feel tiny and barely perceptible from one session to the next.—
Cindy Kuzma,
SELF,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Insignificant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insignificant. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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