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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Gulf oil flows mostly to Asia, and vanishingly little goes to North America.
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David Frum, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2026
The effect for stellar-mass black holes is vanishingly small but actually gets larger for less massive black holes.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2026
Now such opportunities for Iranians are vanishingly rare.
—Jason Rezaian, New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2026
This means that even if a fault-tolerant quantum computer becomes available, QPE could still struggle with large molecules because the chance of successfully extracting the correct energy becomes vanishingly small.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 14 Mar. 2026
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David Frum, The Atlantic, 1 Apr. 2026
The effect for stellar-mass black holes is vanishingly small but actually gets larger for less massive black holes.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2026
Now such opportunities for Iranians are vanishingly rare.
—Jason Rezaian, New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2026
This means that even if a fault-tolerant quantum computer becomes available, QPE could still struggle with large molecules because the chance of successfully extracting the correct energy becomes vanishingly small.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 14 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for vanishingly
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“Vanishingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vanishingly. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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