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UK
/vˈænɪʃɪŋli/
]
ADVERB
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so as to disappear or approach zero
errors are vanishingly rare
How To Use vanishingly In A Sentence
- My first impression is this: vanishingly few people are objective about the election.
- errors are vanishingly rare
- Software used in teams usually fails to take hold, because it requires everyone on the team to change the way they work simultaneously, something which anthropologists will tell you is vanishingly unlikely.
- The fact that in typical sized prints the difference is vanishingly small is of no account.
- There can be few children more wanted than an IVF child so the chances of such a child being mistreated in some way by its parents are vanishingly small.
- As Scoones agrees, a vital component of their success has been the sense of awe they inspire, which is a vanishingly rare commodity in the secular, postmodern world.
- For a while, I thought we should have foreseen it, but the chance of its happening was vanishingly small. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
- From nearly 3% in 2000, his share of the national vote evaporated this year to a third of a percentage point, a political presence so vanishingly small that the Democrats are not even bothering this time to blame him for their loss.
- In other words, it seems vanishingly unlikely.
- He said he could not absolutely exclude it as a theoretical possibility, but added: ‘If you look at the population at large, if this happened at all it must be vanishingly rare.’