vanishingly

adverb

van·​ish·​ing·​ly ˈva-ni-shiŋ-lē How to pronounce vanishingly (audio)
: so as to be almost nonexistent or invisible
the difference is vanishingly small

Examples of vanishingly in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The willingness to be a political Don Quixote, while never common in Congress, now seems vanishingly rare. Ron Elving, NPR, 18 May 2024 In 2017, the year the show first aired, broadcast television was losing viewers to streaming video and social media, and runaway network hits were becoming vanishingly rare. John Koblin, New York Times, 16 May 2024 The odds of dealing with both a brain parasite and mercury poisoning at the same time seem vanishingly rare. David Cox, WIRED, 9 May 2024 Free Fire is a black comedy punctuated entirely with bullets, and Murphy manages to become one of the vanishingly small number of sympathetic characters. Danny Horn, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2024 Gerrymandering and the natural sorting of voters between dense urban areas that are heavily Democratic and vast rural districts that are strongly Republican have left vanishingly few in play. Jonathan Weisman, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2024 There are vanishingly few people who can bend our current, fragmented internet to their will; the rest of us have to hustle, throwing posts at the wall to see what sticks. Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2024 With vanishingly few exceptions, nearly every politician in Washington refuses to countenance major spending reform. David Harsanyi, National Review, 14 Sep. 2023 Of the thousands of striking film and television actors who are members of SAG-AFTRA, vanishingly few will ever see their name on the marquee of a multiplex or listed at #1 on a call sheet. Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

1870, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of vanishingly was in 1870

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“Vanishingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vanishingly. Accessed 28 May. 2024.

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