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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Members of the Democratic task force said the remarks should be understood as an effort to make voter fraud — which studies and investigations have found to be vanishingly rare — seem plausible. — Eric McDaniel, NPR, 28 Oct. 2026 But Anthropic is among that vanishingly small minority that has to analyze what might happen if governments and society at large start treating Claude less like a computer program and more like a person. — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 27 Oct. 2026 The cases of Christa Pike and Nidal Hasan show how vanishingly fine the line is between a routine execution and an unbearable one. — Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026 And then there were miles of acute awareness, each step nudging the vanishingly thin line between pain and pleasure. — Talia Abbas, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for vanishingly

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1870, in the meaning defined above

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