vanishingly
adverb
van·ish·ing·ly
ˈva-ni-shiŋ-lē 
: so as to be almost nonexistent or invisible
the difference is vanishingly small
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The list of professionals who can lay claim to six majors is vanishingly small, not to mention no less than six second place U.S. Open finishes.
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John Tamny, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
Yet despite this, the total mass of gold created is vanishingly small—trillions of times less than what would be needed to make, say, a wedding ring.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
True, Nintendo shut off new downloadable game purchases on the Wii in 2019, likely to avoid the financial and customer support hassles of providing payment services for a vanishingly small market of players still actively buying games on the Wii.
—ArsTechnica, 6 May 2025
Formal reporting—whether to a hospital peer review committee, a licensing board, or an oversight body—is vanishingly rare.
—Sachin H. Jain, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
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John Tamny, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
Yet despite this, the total mass of gold created is vanishingly small—trillions of times less than what would be needed to make, say, a wedding ring.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 May 2025
True, Nintendo shut off new downloadable game purchases on the Wii in 2019, likely to avoid the financial and customer support hassles of providing payment services for a vanishingly small market of players still actively buying games on the Wii.
—ArsTechnica, 6 May 2025
Formal reporting—whether to a hospital peer review committee, a licensing board, or an oversight body—is vanishingly rare.
—Sachin H. Jain, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
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“Vanishingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vanishingly. Accessed 6 Jun. 2025.
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