negligibility

I'm a bit disturbed that someone can go to jail for this kind of negligibility, though ...

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There are studies from the latter half of that century that indicated a negative correlation between circumcision and genital infections (of a non-sexual nature), but the correlation has been seen to decrease to negligibility in modern, affluent cultures, where both education and product availability in personal hygiene are common.

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That dispensed with 89 per cent of the threat at a stroke, and by the time you had further discounted the salad eaters and the turkey and ham sandwich munchers and started to look at the number of people who would contemplate such a course of action without any lunch at all, then you were well into the realms of negligibility and bordering on fantasy.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1988

In the ensuing hour I was reassured as to the negligibility of Emerson's wound.

The Curse of the Pharaohs Peters, Elizabeth, 1927- 1981

These experiments have been conducted to test sensory discrimination, precision of motor response and some of the simpler types of judgment, such as those involved in the solution of simple puzzles with blocks, matches, etc. The fact of the negligibility of sex difference with regard to certain minor measurable traits has been adequately demonstrated by a wide variety of experiments.

Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman

We must do better than that if we are to get on the right side of negligibility.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 19, 1916 Various 1898

Such a measure would necessarily be somewhat futile; since "Business is business," after all, and the practical limitations imposed on an unprofitable boycott by the moral necessity to buy cheap and sell dear that rests on all businessmen would surreptitiously mitigate it to the point of negligibility.

An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation Thorstein Veblen 1893

I'm also bit disturbed that someone can go to jail for this kind of negligibility.

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Until Sir Almroth Wright, following up one of Metchnikoff's most suggestive biological romances, discovered that the white corpuscles or phagocytes which attack and devour disease germs for us do their work only when we butter the disease germs appetizingly for them with a natural sauce which Sir Almroth named opsonin, and that our production of this condiment continually rises and falls rhythmically from negligibility to the highest efficiency, nobody had been able even to conjecture why the various serums that were from time to time introduced as having effected marvellous cures, presently made such direful havoc of some unfortunate patient that they had to be dropped hastily.

The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors George Bernard Shaw 1903