insignificance
Example Sentences
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Despite the pile-up of particulars, Metcalfe knows he must find the lost poem, that it is the keystone without which the story crumbles into insignificance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2025
Perhaps Rowling isn’t so afraid of change after all, but rather fearful of owning up to the inherent insignificance of being one person in a world that treats all humans equally.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2025
Lola is a relative free spirit with an open heart but a sense of limits; Aimée’s performance emphasizes the essential innocence, or maybe insignificance, of her flirtations.
From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024
On Saturday evening in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, heavyweight boxing’s bureaucracy and politics will fizzle into insignificance.
From BBC ● May 16, 2024
Hubble’s discovery that the universe was expanding, and the realization of the insignificance of our own planet in the vastness of the universe, were just the starting point.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
