as in microscopically
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Recent Examples of insignificantly
While these might seem insignificantly small compared to the average density, gravitation causes the overdense regions to grow and attract matter into them over time, while the underdense regions similarly give up their matter to their more dense surroundings.
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for insignificantly
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The only natural safeguard your body has against UV light is a microscopically thin layer of a pigment called melanin in your epidermis.
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The only natural safeguard your body has against UV light is a microscopically thin layer of a pigment called melanin in your epidermis.
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The dozens of edits that Congress made have been minutely examined by historians and literary scholars.
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According to François Godard, a media and telecoms analyst at Enders Analysis, the $71B Disney-Fox deal from late last decade, which was waved through by the EU but examined minutely, sets the closest recent precedent for Hollywood M&A in the continent.
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The company used this speed advantage (and, later, similar ones) to profit from infinitesimally brief pricing differences between exchanges, all while fulfilling clients’ orders to buy and sell on those exchanges.
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Even then, an opponent might be infinitesimally more precise.
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The nanobubbler system — essentially imperceptibly small bubbles meant to oxygenate the water and choke off algae growth — had never been tested at this scale on a public monument before deployment.
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Progress continued, if slowly and imperceptibly, from that point forward.
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Everyone is over the moon with the experience, especially Aesha, who can barely contain her happiness; the night set the bar very high for the rest of the season.
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But as JuJu Watkins took her place in front of a microphone for the first time since returning to practice this summer, the USC superstar barely could contain her gratitude.
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Phil Baxter, working minimally with fruit from the renowned Ferrington Vineyard, articulates the skill in his work as knowing what not to do.
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Use Preparation Methods That Maintain Benefits Research indicates that the healthiest ways to prepare oats involve starting with whole or minimally processed oats and using methods that maintain significant amounts of beta-glucan.
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Yet somewhere, invisibly, the horizon had contracted.
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The influence often occurs invisibly.
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Dollar dominance has provided Washington with tools of statecraft that previous great powers could scarcely imagine.
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The launch was scarcely announced in advance, Ars reports.
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“Insignificantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/insignificantly. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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