minuscule
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The so-called jobless claims published each week by the Labor Department were already minuscule before the pandemic but sank to a 57-year low of 189,000 over the summer.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026
"The field is expected to supply only a minuscule share of UK gas demand for a limited period," said Jess Ralston, analyst at the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit, a non-profit research group.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026
Gazza's baggy Roman shellsuit, John Charles plundering black-and-white goals in Turin, King Kev's floodlit perm dazzling Volksparkstadion terraces, Glenn Hoddle's minuscule Monegasque shorts.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
Like Zach Cregger with “Weapons” or Kane Parsons’ “Backrooms,” Barker built on the run-and-gun inventiveness of the sketch-group internet scene to helm a culture-shifting horror hit on a minuscule budget.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Before landing she slips into the bathroom and changes, miraculously in that minuscule space, into a fresh sari.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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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
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
And there are a few additions in minuscules by a still later hand.
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
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
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