minuscule
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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
Pollsters say that minuscule lead will hold as the remaining ballots fall in her favor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
Scolyer and Long knew the odds of a cure were "minuscule", but hoped the experimental treatment would prolong Prof Scolyer's life.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
Now, in one way to look at it, an average taxpayer’s share of defense activities is minuscule.
From Slate ● May 11, 2026
Ashoke lifts the minuscule parcel higher, closer to his chest.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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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 Lowe, E. A. (Elias Avery)
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 first book wholly printed in Greek minuscules was Lascaris' Grammar at Milan in 1476.
From The Century of Columbus by Walsh, James J.
Palimpsest, hardly legible, Unc., latter part, as Greg. has discovered, in early minuscules.
From A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Scrivener, Frederick Henry Ambrose
And there are a few additions in minuscules by a still later hand.
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