merest

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Before Lamarck, naturalists saw organisms as passive, depending on supernatural intervention for their merest actions as well as their very existence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

She reset to hold, then wrestled back the break, allowing herself the merest of smiles.

From Barron's • Jan. 31, 2026

It’s a fig leaf so thin the merest whisper of a breeze wafts it away.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2024

Before Saturday, the atmospheric spigots of April had given us the merest trickle of moisture.

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2023

But, in truth, the monster managed only the merest tiny little cough of smoke before turning over on its side and giving up the ghost.

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye