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minuscule

[min-uh-skyool, mi-nuhs-kyool] / ˈmɪn əˌskjul, mɪˈnʌs kjul /


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Many of them are upstart traders who have ways to use artificial-intelligence tools in trading and markets, deploying teams of bots that monitor minuscule price movements across venues and even place trades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Gazza's baggy Roman shellsuit, John Charles plundering black-and-white goals in Turin, King Kev's floodlit perm dazzling Volksparkstadion terraces, Glenn Hoddle's minuscule Monegasque shorts.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

The northern route is "a temporary and minuscule solution with regards to the overall needs", De Ricqles said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026

“Heretic” was underbaked and half-thought, while “Companion” tried to create big laughs and bigger action from minuscule ideas.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026

Okay, maybe there’s a tiny, minuscule part of me wondering what it would feel like to announce, Ben’s actually the world’s youngest surgeon or Ben’s working in the mayor’s policy office.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

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

The letters shown in 182 are fairly typical of the characteristic Blackletter minuscules of Italy.

From Letters and Lettering A Treatise With 200 Examples by Frank Chouteau Brown

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 E. A. (Elias Avery) Lowe

Written in regular Italian minuscules of the 15th century, formed on the models of the 11th and 12th centuries.

From Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University by Addison Van Name

Where minuscules are used, the writing is not quite so legible as in the larger hands, but we are not met by the singular difficulties of some of the Lombardic texts.

From Illuminated Manuscripts by John William Bradley




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