exiguous
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The result of the court’s linguistic analysis is an exiguous textual opinion based on parsing dictionaries instead of a functional understanding even minimally consistent with basic science.
From Slate • Jun. 8, 2023
As for "lasting" effects on economic growth, the average growth of GDP since 2005 has been an exiguous 0.6%.
From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2013
Expectorating on an enemy's final resting place is exactly the kind of exiguous act of vengeance that a contemporary injured party might just be able to manage.
From The Guardian • Jan. 24, 2011
Only an exiguous 2.5% of all Boy Scouts become Eagles, and the number of Scouts as a whole has dwindled.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of his rooms was directly above the street-door of the house; such a dormitory, when it is so exiguous, is called in the nomenclature of New York a "hall bedroom."
From The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) by James, Henry
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