minuscule
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He threaded passes into minuscule gaps in Ohio State’s zone defense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
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
It sounds terrifying, but the odds of the average person encountering that kind of radiation are minuscule.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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Bousset has argued that the readings in the Pauline epistles found in אc H and a few minuscules represent the text used by Pamphilus, and on the whole this view seems to be highly probable.
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
The first book wholly printed in Greek minuscules was Lascaris' Grammar at Milan in 1476.
From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh
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
And there are a few additions in minuscules by a still later hand.
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