diminish
verb (used with object)
to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
diminishingly
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a word derived from
diminish.
Example Sentences
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They are known to be among the diminishingly small number of independent media outlets in the country.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2023
The number of children who have serious adverse reactions to vaccines is diminishingly small, at about one in one million – a lower chance than that of dying in a plane crash within a year.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 26, 2018
Read this way, “Coloring Book” offers listeners a diminishingly rare shared lens.
From The New Yorker ● May 24, 2016
On the one hand, ambitious younger artists were seeing diminishingly few possibilities for growth in the overfarmed fields of painting and sculpture.
From New York Times ● Jul. 3, 2014
Very slowly, “Oh, Ford, Ford, Ford,” it said diminishingly and on a descending scale.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
