insignificance

Example Sentences

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"Faced with such a scene, you can instantly forget all your troubles, and only lament the insignificance of human beings in front of nature," Mr Zheng told the BBC.

From BBC

There’s this interest in the deep time, and in some ways, it’s both an acknowledgement of our individual insignificance but also our lineage that is much longer and vaster than is usually acknowledged.

From Los Angeles Times

But that pales into insignificance compared to the time Hetfield misjudged the placement of a pyrotechnic during a show in the 1990s.

From BBC

Yet the relative insignificance of the crypto markets to the larger financial picture is exactly why this story is worth paying attention to.

From Washington Post

It seems that a “munch” is a guy who, ahem, has only one use — an admirer so inadequate, a new piece of slang had to be invented to properly describe his insignificance.

From Washington Post