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iota

[ahy-oh-tuh] / aɪˈoʊ tə /


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Not an iota of care for Mathew Shurka, “an amicus who received conversion therapy as a child,” who is a living example of the unbearable price paid for framing talk therapy as nothing but speech.

From Slate Apr. 3, 2026

Perhaps most painful among the nurses’ many miseries is their isolation: the secrets they keep in hopes of sparing their loved ones an iota of extra suffering.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 24, 2025

"It doesn't help the UK's advanced manufacturing sector one iota, because we don't see any of those funds," he said.

From BBC Oct. 5, 2025

“It is clear that the instant allegation is not based on a single iota of evidence.”

From Salon Dec. 4, 2024

She was growing a little stout, but it did net seem to detract an iota from the grace of every step, pose, gesture.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

At random moments when Kopit tosses his thinking cap away for vaudeville, the play generates iotas of fun.

From Time Magazine Archive

"We are just one iota among countless iotas in the universe," Drake insists.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here & there, they admit, among Vogt's errors, prejudices, mysticism and reckless appeals to emotion, they can find iotas of truth-but not many.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Tompsett-King deprecated all dottings of iotas; when Philippa stormed at society he hummed a sad little tune.

From Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution by Maurice Henry Hewlett

Thus it is that in the Word Divine things and arcana of heaven are contained even in its iotas, points and tittles.

From Heaven and its Wonders and Hell by John Ager




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