How to Use iota in a Sentence

iota

noun
  • Two weeks can be too tight of a turnaround time for any horse one iota shy of tip-top shape.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 15 May 2025
  • Their secrets, grudges, and desires haven’ changes one iota.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 9 Mar. 2026
  • And there is certainly more than one iota of a reason for this change.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • None of these events should have mattered one iota to the economy.
    — Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • Some of the victories weren’t wipe-outs, but that mattered not one iota.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Nov. 2021
  • And it's never made one iota of a difference.
    — Eileen Finan, PEOPLE, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Perhaps to poison the grief in my lungs, perhaps to feel an iota of agency.
    — Ida Momennejad, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Most of them are the type of legislation that won't affect your life one iota.
    — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 19 Feb. 2020
  • None of her motivations or timetables make an iota of sense, but try not to pick things apart.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Plus there isn’t one iota, even one molecule of weird in your purr strategy.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 9 July 2022
  • Hamas is not looking out for, caring one iota about their welfare and well- being.
    — CBS News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • This proves once again that Big Business does not care one iota about us common folks.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2024
  • Does anyone on this program have one iota of a survival instinct in their doomed bodies?
    — Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
  • That kind of underlying approach to our gender doesn’t seem to me to have changed an iota.
    — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 9 May 2018
  • There isn’t an iota of doubt that vaccines are a safe and effective way to prevent many diseases.
    — The Scientific American Staff, Scientific American, 24 June 2019
  • Once installed, a child seat impinges on only the last iota of front-seat travel for taller drivers.
    — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Six years and one pandemic later, the owners’ standards have not slipped one iota.
    — Kitty Greenwald, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Sorry, Supes fans, but the time travel here doesn’t make the tiniest iota of sense.
    — Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
  • This is an episode of men talking directly past Michelle’s head and not reading even one iota of the room.
    — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2021
  • But that probably wouldn’t impact the Ducks and Huskies one iota.
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 24 May 2024
  • Every iota of data about a prospect, then, becomes pregnant with meaning.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 4 June 2026
  • That didn’t change the overriding feeling of utter failure one iota.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 26 Apr. 2026
  • A little offense en route — just like on Saturday night — would hurt them not one iota, either.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
  • This is also her first solo show in Los Angeles, and there’s not one iota of stage fright here.
    — Vogue, 13 Jan. 2018
  • All of this leaves us not an iota closer to solving the mystery of who created the Utah sculpture.
    — New York Times, 1 Dec. 2020
  • The Sun Devils are mediocre, with the turmoil and turnover in their coaching regime not helping one iota.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Sep. 2022
  • Remarkably, his passion and bravura haven’t diminished an iota with age.
    — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Uniloc seems to have searched for every iota of Google's business activity in a large state and thrown it into its lawsuit.
    — Joe Mullin, Ars Technica, 6 June 2017
  • And at Georgetown, which seems to hit a new record-low acceptance rate each year, every iota of information could help.
    — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2019
  • For specific viewing times in cities around the world, check out this IOTA table.
    — National Geographic, 1 May 2017

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