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
“Heretic” was underbaked and half-thought, while “Companion” tried to create big laughs and bigger action from minuscule ideas.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
Both of them are black, and at a school with a population of about 2,000, they represent a statistically significant portion of the college’s minuscule black population.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
As every player seamlessly switches between attacker and shooter, the minuscule gaps in the Spurs’ defense become wider and wider.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
For an extended pensive time, his shaggy head held sadly in his hands, Pacheco stared at this minuscule thing on which he had so omnipotently decided to bestow a future.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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If minuscules are used, the words should be transliterated as quinque, queen, Europe, according to the practice of the old printers themselves.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
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
Mark, and John, in small Caroline minuscules, but with a large capital at the beginning of St. Mark and interlaced ornamentation.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
The rest of the N. T. is only found in codices of the whole Bible, which are rare and always written in minuscules, never in uncials as are the Gospels.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener
These agree in the main, but differ for the more recently discovered minuscules.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
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