iota
Example Sentences
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But even those betray an iota of human-made whimsy, a sparkle of vulnerability.
From Slate • Jan. 7, 2026
"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
Like the film’s title, the jokes in “Happy Gilmore 2” don’t require a single iota of thought, only a death-grip on nostalgia.
From Salon • Jul. 27, 2025
But even if she’d been driving a fire truck in the Palisades, it wouldn’t have made an iota of difference in the disaster.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 2025
I had clung to them, to Rass, yes, even to my grandmother, afraid that if I loosened my fingers an iota, I would find myself once more cold and clean in a forgotten basket.
From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.