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insignificance

[in-sig-nif-i-kuhns] / ˌɪn sɪgˈnɪf ɪ kəns /


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It also makes the £235.4m net spend from the five years previous pale into insignificance.

From BBC Dec. 18, 2024

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

In both movies, painful memories become wondrous hallucinations, a tower becomes a portal between worlds, and questions of reality versus fantasy, or old versus young, blur into insignificance.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 8, 2023

A grain of sand is generally used for expressing tininess, or insignificance.

From Salon Nov. 30, 2023

Sometimes they receded of their own accord, and the room he lay in grew impossibly large, terrorizing him with the specter of his own insignificance.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy




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