negligible
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So while driving Indy cars 177 miles in a circle may seem wasteful during a gas crunch, Sunday’s race will have a negligible affect on the price and availability of fuel at service stations.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
Normally, this one-month difference is negligible, said John Paisie, president of Stratas Advisors.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 13, 2026
Samsung said the purpose of the pilot is to explore whether ads relevant to home chores can be useful to owners, and that overall pushback has been negligible.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 2026
Both boards said that Rana had a negligible chance of recovering and living a normal life, and that he required external support for feeding, bladder and bowel movements.
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026
Thus it is important to see that when we hail Theodoric as an important scientist our judgement is essentially anachronistic: he did not seem important to his contemporaries or successors, and his influence is negligible.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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