insignificance
Example Sentences
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Despite the pile-up of particulars, Metcalfe knows he must find the lost poem, that it is the keystone without which the story crumbles into insignificance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
It also makes the £235.4m net spend from the five years previous pale into insignificance.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2024
Lola is a relative free spirit with an open heart but a sense of limits; Aimée’s performance emphasizes the essential innocence, or maybe insignificance, of her flirtations.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024
A grain of sand is generally used for expressing tininess, or insignificance.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2023
I am a “good person,” as my demented charges at the nursing home agree, but maybe Em also just sick of my suddenly acquired insignificance.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
