minuscule
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The northern route is "a temporary and minuscule solution with regards to the overall needs", De Ricqles said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
But the DSA’s total official membership remains at around 100,000: formidable, but a minuscule percentage of the population compared to the two major parties.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2026
Still, the game’s result seemed minuscule when stacked against Alfonso’s personal tragedy and the earthquake’s destruction in Venezuela.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 6, 2026
A Welsh Labour source close to the UK government described the cut as "minuscule" on Tuesday.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
But man, that little black book was packed with a billion onionskin pages crammed with minuscule writing and all these flowery let-there-be this’s and let-there-be that’s.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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Had the introduction of printing been preceded by a revival of the beautiful Greek book-hand of the eleventh century, similar to the revival of the Caroline minuscules, all would have been well.
From A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard
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
If roman minuscules are used throughout, or roman for the text and italic for the imprint of colophon, the method of transliteration which the printer himself would have used should be adopted.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
Written in very regular, bold Italian minuscules of the period of the Renaissance.
From Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University by Addison Van Name
There is abundant evidence elsewhere in the Letters that the immediate ancestor of BF was written in minuscules; I need not elaborate this point.
From A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York by E. A. (Elias Avery) Lowe
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