exiguous
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The result of the court’s linguistic analysis is an exiguous textual opinion based on parsing dictionaries instead of a functional understanding even minimally consistent with basic science.
From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2023
Beecroft's rationale for proposing a whole series of changes weakening employment protection was the assertion, offered without evidence, that workers use their exiguous protections to get away with working below capacity.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2012
Expectorating on an enemy's final resting place is exactly the kind of exiguous act of vengeance that a contemporary injured party might just be able to manage.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 24, 2011
Ordinarily these metallic elements must be strongly heated before they vaporize, but in the utter cold of space, close to absolute zero, they exist in exiguous quantities as free molecules and therefore as gases.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mataafa has played and lost; an exile, and stripped of his titles, he walks the exiguous beach of Jaluit, sees the German flag over his head, and yearns for the land wind of Upolu.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
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