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The odds of shareholders pushing out Musk are vanishingly small.

From Barron's • May 17, 2026

Yet her reasons were as much political as personal, stemming from an urge to document her life as a newly out lesbian in the 1970s, when such representation was vanishingly rare.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 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

Leading a government over the last 10 years in the UK has offered vanishingly little job security: Sir Keir is the sixth prime minister in a decade.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2025

An average man can detect just a few molecules of butyl mercaptan, and most of us can sense the presence of musk in vanishingly small amounts.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas