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
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
To create the sequence, Nolan’s team built a sort of silo on the beach, rigging it with minuscule LED lights to mimic sunlight leaking through chinks in the horse’s hull.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Teapots that pour into teacups and minuscule curls of steam that rise from them as the seconds tick.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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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
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
There is abundant evidence elsewhere in the Letters that the immediate ancestor of BF was written in minuscules; I need not elaborate this point.
From A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York by E. A. (Elias Avery) Lowe
The first book wholly printed in Greek minuscules was Lascaris' Grammar at Milan in 1476.
From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh
And there are a few additions in minuscules by a still later hand.
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