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 identification of the young Herculaneum man's brain as having turned to glass adds a new – and vanishingly rare – possibility to the list.
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Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025
The firing of a service chief such as Admiral Franchetti is vanishingly rare, though Mr. Trump fired another four-star female admiral less than 24 hours after his second inauguration.
—John Ismay, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
Given how vanishingly few transgender athletes there are, and how many voters pointed to other policy issues as greater priorities, a rational person might have been confused.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
It’s been known for decades that diverse rodent species harbor cocci, mostly without showing symptoms, and the soil in rodent burrows is much more likely to test positive than random soil samples, where spores are vanishingly rare.
—Bymeredith Wadman, science.org, 16 Jan. 2025
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Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025
The firing of a service chief such as Admiral Franchetti is vanishingly rare, though Mr. Trump fired another four-star female admiral less than 24 hours after his second inauguration.
—John Ismay, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
Given how vanishingly few transgender athletes there are, and how many voters pointed to other policy issues as greater priorities, a rational person might have been confused.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
It’s been known for decades that diverse rodent species harbor cocci, mostly without showing symptoms, and the soil in rodent burrows is much more likely to test positive than random soil samples, where spores are vanishingly rare.
—Bymeredith Wadman, science.org, 16 Jan. 2025
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“Vanishingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vanishingly. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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