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negligibly

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They say the treatment and dilution will make the wastewater safer than international standards and its environmental impact will be negligibly small.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 21, 2023

Though one insect’s frass may seem negligibly small, it balloons on an industrial scale; a mealworm farmer in Nebraska produces approximately two pounds of frass for every pound of mealworms.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2022

By using cash as a universal yardstick, economists intrinsically underrepresent the needs, and even the rights, of the poor, who have contributed negligibly to the climate crisis.

From Salon • Nov. 16, 2021

But, says Koonin, data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show the number of significant ones has changed negligibly, and the strongest kind have become less frequent.

From Washington Post • Aug. 11, 2021

And the relationship between himself and her, though the evidence was so negligibly slight as yet, he knew had definitely changed.…

From The Wave An Egyptian Aftermath by Blackwood, Algernon