vanishingly
adverb
van·ish·ing·ly
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Definition of vanishingly
: so as to be almost nonexistent or invisible
the difference is vanishingly small
Examples of vanishingly in a Sentence
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With data, the devil is in the defaults — companies know a vanishingly small number of people will ever adjust settings. — Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Denver Post, "The spy in your wallet: Credit cards have a privacy problem," 31 Aug. 2019 For years the flashes first seemed either improbable or at least vanishingly rare. — Wired, "An Alien-Hunting Tech Mogul May Help Solve a Space Mystery," 21 July 2019 For years the flashes first seemed either improbable or at least vanishingly rare. — Katia Moskvitch, WIRED, "An Alien-Hunting Tech Mogul May Help Solve a Space Mystery," 21 July 2019 Pete Bucktrout/British Antarctic Survey While Earth’s surface is peppered with volcanoes, lava lakes appear to be vanishingly rare. — New York Times, "A Burning Lava Lake Concealed by a Volcano’s Glacial Ice," 12 July 2019 This is vanishingly small, even in a world where re-entries are numbered in the hundreds per year. — The Economist, "No one has yet been killed by re-entering space junk," 10 Aug. 2019 In breaks from his prize-winning work, Rubbia envisioned a 5000-ton detector that would watch for an event expected to be theoretically possible, although vanishingly rare: the decay of the proton. — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, "Resurrected detector will hunt for some of the strangest particles in the universe," 8 Aug. 2019 Nancy and Barbara Lowry were identical twins, and a noncancerous blood disease in one had been curable by cells from the other, a vanishingly rare occurrence. — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, "The Promise and Price of Cellular Therapies," 15 July 2019 This randomness, along with Keyes' vanishingly low profile, enabled him to kill undetected for years. — Dennis Drabelle, Dallas News, "'American Predator' reveals the chilling playbook of a serial killer," 9 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'vanishingly.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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vanishingly
adverb
English Language Learners Definition of vanishingly
—used to say that something is so small that it almost does not exist at all
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