Example Sentences

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The odds of shareholders pushing out Musk are vanishingly small.

From Barron's • May 17, 2026

“In reality, the FCC has vanishingly little power over national news networks. It licenses local broadcast stations, not networks, and no licenses are up for renewal until 2028.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026

Over hours of press conferences, speeches and dozens of social media posts, mentions of cyber operations are vanishingly rare.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

The question really ought to be, does this make sense to have this push if the problem is vanishingly rare in the first place.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026

The first thin atmosphere came entirely from the degassing of the earth as it cooled, and there was only a vanishingly small trace of oxygen in it.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas