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
Beecroft's rationale for proposing a whole series of changes weakening employment protection was the assertion, offered without evidence, that workers use their exiguous protections to get away with working below capacity.
From The Guardian • Dec. 20, 2012
Elizabeth is effectively obliterated and yet one immediately recognises her from this exiguous after-image.
From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2012
Ordinarily these metallic elements must be strongly heated before they vaporize, but in the utter cold of space, close to absolute zero, they exist in exiguous quantities as free molecules and therefore as gases.
From Time Magazine Archive
To me, alas! no verdurous visions come, Save yon exiguous pool's conferva-scum— No concave vast repeats the tender hue That laves my milk-jug with celestial blue.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
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