minuscule
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That’s a minuscule fraction of the $1.2 million that Americans think they’ll need to retire comfortably, according to the asset-management firm Schroders.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 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
And because their other waste product is water, the center’s net water loss will be comparatively minuscule.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Seaborg’s microchemists used hydrofluoric acid to reduce a solution made from the bombardment products and watched a minuscule quantity of pinkish material precipitate out: this was pure plutonium-239.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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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
The first book wholly printed in Greek minuscules was Lascaris' Grammar at Milan in 1476.
From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh
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
And there are a few additions in minuscules by a still later hand.
Had the introduction of printing been preceded by a revival of the beautiful Greek book-hand of the eleventh century, similar to the revival of the Caroline minuscules, all would have been well.
From A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard
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