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
As for "lasting" effects on economic growth, the average growth of GDP since 2005 has been an exiguous 0.6%.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2013
Elizabeth is effectively obliterated and yet one immediately recognises her from this exiguous after-image.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2012
Lopez has only an exiguous notion of what real gay life is like, but such misapprehensions are not uncommon among young people with same-sex attractions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Opposite me, within an exiguous front yard, a very fat man sat on a rickety chair, the back resting against the wall, and gave me an uncomfortable sense of impending collapse of the spindly legs.
From A Top-Floor Idyl by Van Schaick, George
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