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noun

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Adjective
  • Fuentes says there'll still be lots of room for micro accents with magnetics, ombres, chromes, and glitters.
    Raquel Reichard, refinery29.com, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Jay Harris Bergvall’s influence continues to grow Among the micro issues this season, Lucas Bergvall’s development is among the most positive — and this was another fine night for him.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • As anyone who’s watched an iota of sports programming over the past few years can attest, the betting business doesn’t traffic in subtlety.
    Sean Gregory / Boston, TIME, 27 Jan. 2025
  • He was concerned as a boy that even an iota of doubt could lead him to a different fate, relegating him to an eternity separated from his family, particularly his parents.
    Rick Rojas, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The pup worked for 13 years helping make others smile — including countless patients at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, where he was named the tiniest therapy dog out of more than 100 enrolled in the hospital’s Amerman Family Foundation Dog Therapy Program.
    Luke Chinman, People.com, 27 Jan. 2025
  • There was a tiny cell, its walls painted deep red and carved with graffiti, where prisoners who were to be executed were kept.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Last season saw the 27-year-old continue his steady production at the plate, lowering his already impressive strikeout rate to a minuscule 10.3 percent.
    Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
  • That's minuscule on an everyday scale, but on the microscopic scale of nuclear physics that is a very large amount indeed.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Rocketbook Core Reusable Spiral Notebook On Sale 9% off $31 Buy Now on Amazon $22 Buy Now on target For the one who takes the nicest notes and jots down pretty much everything, get them a more sustainable option.
    Mia Maguire, StyleCaster, 11 Dec. 2024
  • This could be something as simple as a quick jot in your Notes app, or super extra like an advanced Excel spreadsheet—whatever works best for you.
    Sarah Kinonen, Allure, 26 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • The mass is given an infinitesimal push, parallel to the rail.
    Kevin Roose, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Further, even if the U.S. dominated the market, the impact would be infinitesimal: the market is currently a grand $3.6 billion a year.
    Michael Lynch, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Only a smidgen of Leibniz’s incessant output was published in his lifetime, and there is much still to come.
    Anthony Gottlieb, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
  • And on a practical level, if each step up only reduces the error rate by a smidgen, scaling won’t be feasible.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Now, for the first time, researchers have watched the opening choreography of this microscopic dance by inducing endosymbiosis in the lab.
    Molly Herring, WIRED, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Finally, nature’s hidden secrets are shown in the microscopic world of the Close-up Photographer of the Year competition: see the winning images here.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 25 Jan. 2025
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“Minim.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minim. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.

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