How to Use minutia in a Sentence

minutia

noun
  • This is the minutiae that drives all zinesters mad.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Baseball games can be won and lost in the minutiae.
    — Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
  • My job all day long is to quantify minutia.
    — Adam B. Vary, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Stevens said a few things that at the time passed as press conference minutia.
    — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 15 June 2022
  • No minutiae in these stories is left out as the film builds the legend.
    — Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 20 June 2023
  • Emerick is ready for the onslaught of minutia that's sure to come.
    — Jeffrey Lee Puckett, The Courier-Journal, 22 May 2018
  • That way, the buyers know the best gear to carry, and sales staff can talk minutia with customers.
    — Ryan Stuart, Outside Online, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Few care about the minutiae of kicking, only whether the ball goes through the uprights.
    — Matthew Fairburn, The Athletic, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The coach is involved in all of that but doesn’t have to manage the hour-by-hour, day-by-day minutiae.
    — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Teresa Williams stood in the still morning, looking at the minutia of her life laid bare.
    — Travis Dorman, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2020
  • Warm in a way that’s detectable in the minutiae of vocal cadences and the crinkle of a smile.
    — Alana Massey, Curbed, 22 June 2018
  • Tee up alerts and reminders and write out or type notes, detailed schedules and to-do lists for big projects and office minutia.
    — Ray A. Smith, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2021
  • His entire job is to buy roses, and to know all the minutiae about kinds of roses, sourcing, and so on.
    — Byphil Wahba, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Instead of focusing on the tax minutiae, look at the big picture.
    — Jonathan I. Shenkman, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Watching this kid go to school every day and push past all the minutiae and challenges to get there was very special to me.
    — Kevin Rector, baltimoresun.com, 18 May 2018
  • Don't let the minutiae or the moment(s) get to you before, during or after the wedding.
    — Bill Daley, chicagotribune.com, 8 May 2017
  • The writers weren’t the only ones focused on getting the minutiae right.
    — Eric Schultz, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Aug. 2023
  • They're drawn to the minutiae, the details, and they're used to being largely ignored.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
  • All the minutia our brains have been trained to take in and react to have been altered dramatically.
    — ABC News, 19 Mar. 2021
  • This may sound like minutiae, but the slightly wider screen is easier to type on and is better suited to apps.
    — PC Magazine, 10 July 2025
  • The minutia of Severance is so intense.
    — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Much of the show is dedicated to the minutiae of life in Big Tech firms.
    — Diego Lasarte, New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2026
  • The minutia added up to a major part of my mother's history, and, by extension, my own.
    — Rebecca Soffer, ELLE Decor, 18 Sep. 2015
  • Close associates from his Tainan days describe him as solemn and focused on the minutia of policies.
    — Vic Chiang, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2024
  • His obsession with the minutia of fine dining would put Martha Stewart to shame.
    — Robert Leonard, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
  • My team no longer spends long cycles debating the minutiae of campaign setup.
    — Lisa Sharapata, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Cramming for games, pouring over practice film and handling all the minutia that comes his way as Lions coach.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 21 Dec. 2017
  • In the studio, we artisans can get caught up in the minutiae of our stories and lose sight of the bigger picture.
    — Hazlitt, 13 May 2025
  • The next day would be filled with the awkward minutiae of joining a new team, but the rest of that night was set aside for something akin to mourning.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Everybody wants the big power instead of the little details, the minutia.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 4 Sep. 2017

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