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

This is a London egg, and this is London bacon, and this exiguous liquid which "laves the milk-jug with celestial blue" is London milk.

From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie