minuscule
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Ms. Butterly accomplishes the feat of making “ceramics” become “sculpture” without the usual method of constructing giant jars with impossibly minuscule openings and jazzily geometric surface decoration.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Both of them are black, and at a school with a population of about 2,000, they represent a statistically significant portion of the college’s minuscule black population.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
"It really does crush the team but that's minuscule compared to the anxiety and the stress for the families."
From BBC • May 26, 2026
Now, in one way to look at it, an average taxpayer’s share of defense activities is minuscule.
From Slate • May 11, 2026
The apartment is barely heated, minuscule, at the top of six steep flights of stairs, with a bathroom the size of a phone booth.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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