minuscule
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But the DSA’s total official membership remains at around 100,000: formidable, but a minuscule percentage of the population compared to the two major parties.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Still, the game’s result seemed minuscule when stacked against Alfonso’s personal tragedy and the earthquake’s destruction in Venezuela.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
As every player seamlessly switches between attacker and shooter, the minuscule gaps in the Spurs’ defense become wider and wider.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
"It really does crush the team but that's minuscule compared to the anxiety and the stress for the families."
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
But man, that little black book was packed with a billion onionskin pages crammed with minuscule writing and all these flowery let-there-be this’s and let-there-be that’s.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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And there are a few additions in minuscules by a still later hand.
Written in very regular, bold Italian minuscules of the period of the Renaissance.
From Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University by Van Name, Addison
There is abundant evidence elsewhere in the Letters that the immediate ancestor of BF was written in minuscules; I need not elaborate this point.
From A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York by Lowe, E. A. (Elias Avery)
The rest of the N. T. is only found in codices of the whole Bible, which are rare and always written in minuscules, never in uncials as are the Gospels.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose
These agree in the main, but differ for the more recently discovered minuscules.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
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