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
Many of them are upstart traders who have ways to use artificial-intelligence tools in trading and markets, deploying teams of bots that monitor minuscule price movements across venues and even place trades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 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
My legs feel suddenly heavy as sandbags, and minuscule particles float in front of my eyes.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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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.
These agree in the main, but differ for the more recently discovered minuscules.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
Where minuscules are used, the writing is not quite so legible as in the larger hands, but we are not met by the singular difficulties of some of the Lombardic texts.
From Illuminated Manuscripts by John William Bradley
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