vanishingly
adverb
van·ish·ing·ly
ˈva-ni-shiŋ-lē 
: so as to be almost nonexistent or invisible
the difference is vanishingly small
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As one of vanishingly few Palestinian American voices in Hollywood, Amer might have devoted what would, unfortunately, be his show’s final season to current events.
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Judy Berman, Time, 3 June 2025
Attempting to replace these institutional frameworks represents a decades-long project with vanishingly small chances of success no matter how much money is thrown at it.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
But with the entire region now braced for more Iranian retaliatory strikes – on Israel, US military bases or key shipping lanes, such as the Strait of Hormuz – peacemaking seems vanishingly distant.
—Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 23 June 2025
If your privacy practices have been less than perfect in the past—and whose have not, given the vanishingly tiny odds of evading every form of digital data collection—additional information about you from over the years is likely available from hundreds of data brokers.
—Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 16 June 2025
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Judy Berman, Time, 3 June 2025
Attempting to replace these institutional frameworks represents a decades-long project with vanishingly small chances of success no matter how much money is thrown at it.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025
But with the entire region now braced for more Iranian retaliatory strikes – on Israel, US military bases or key shipping lanes, such as the Strait of Hormuz – peacemaking seems vanishingly distant.
—Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 23 June 2025
If your privacy practices have been less than perfect in the past—and whose have not, given the vanishingly tiny odds of evading every form of digital data collection—additional information about you from over the years is likely available from hundreds of data brokers.
—Andy Greenberg, Wired News, 16 June 2025
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“Vanishingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vanishingly. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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