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Possibly, his experiences in the Congo turned him into a writer, or at least gave him a sense of the indifference and negligibility of human life which he could shape into his fiction.

From Time Magazine Archive

Said he: "I urge that the negligibility of material things be universally recognized."

From Time Magazine Archive

It was preparing letters and lectures about the flying saucers, the negligibility of death, and the true nature of time.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

The fact of the negligibility of sex difference with regard to certain minor measurable traits has been adequately demonstrated by a wide variety of experiments.

From Human Traits and their Social Significance by Edman, Irwin

We must do better than that if we are to get on the right side of negligibility.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 19, 1916 by Seaman, Owen, Sir