minutiae

Example Sentences

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Big picture stuff can be just as helpful as the minutiae.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

Gorsuch at first refused to believe him, claiming greater expertise in the minutiae of the Mississippi code.

From Slate • Mar. 23, 2026

Mo Costello’s abstract photographs focus on the minutiae of everyday things like Aaron Siskind did, but more than three decades after that artist’s death these images feel uninspired.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

They display an innate curiosity and astonishing degrees of empathy, intelligence and perceptiveness, with subjects ranging from public and social institutions to cultural and specialized spaces and the minutiae of human interactions.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026

Who would have dreamed, though, that the easily willed minutiae of their daily actions could amass so — solidifying, mountainous, beyond their control?

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen