minuscule
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The so-called jobless claims published each week by the Labor Department were already minuscule before the pandemic but sank to a 57-year low of 189,000 over the summer.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
The minuscule yet distinctly humanoid figure of a fairy flaps its wings as it flies into the ancient ruins of a bygone kingdom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 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
It stretched its wings as he looked down at it, and bared its minuscule fangs.
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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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
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
If minuscules are used, the words should be transliterated as quinque, queen, Europe, according to the practice of the old printers themselves.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
It must be remembered that the dating of the MSS., especially of minuscules, is by no means certain: Greek Palaeography is a difficult subject, and not all the MSS. have been investigated by competent palaeographers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
The rest of the N. T. is only found in codices of the whole Bible, which are rare and always written in minuscules, never in uncials as are the Gospels.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
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