How to Use iota in a Sentence

iota

noun
Definition of iotanext
Synonyms for iotanext
  • In second place was iota, B.1.526, first seen in New York City.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2021
  • None of these events should have mattered one iota to the economy.
    — Laurence Kotlikoff, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • Some of the victories weren’t wipe-outs, but that mattered not one iota.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Nov. 2021
  • And there is certainly more than one iota of a reason for this change.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • Sorry, Supes fans, but the time travel here doesn’t make the tiniest iota of sense.
    — Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
  • This is an episode of men talking directly past Michelle’s head and not reading even one iota of the room.
    — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Most of them are the type of legislation that won't affect your life one iota.
    — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 19 Feb. 2020
  • The Sun Devils are mediocre, with the turmoil and turnover in their coaching regime not helping one iota.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Sep. 2022
  • None of her motivations or timetables make an iota of sense, but try not to pick things apart.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2022
  • In what parallel universe does this make one iota of sense?
    — Scott Kaufman, Orange County Register, 20 May 2017
  • This is also her first solo show in Los Angeles, and there’s not one iota of stage fright here.
    — Vogue, 13 Jan. 2018
  • All of this leaves us not an iota closer to solving the mystery of who created the Utah sculpture.
    — New York Times, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Some things, of course, will not change, and this year’s intro is only an iota less cringe than the Billy Ray Cyrus tribute that opened 2021.
    — James Hansen, Bon Appétit, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The maligned front five of Cincinnati allowed Andy Dalton to take brutal hits, be sacked three more times and fail to muster an iota of push in the run game.
    — Paul Dehner Jr., Cincinnati.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Each iota of desire comes with the consequence of pain, and being a woman had me like a Hungry Ghost.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 27 Feb. 2018
  • For specific viewing times in cities around the world, check out this IOTA table.
    — National Geographic, 1 May 2017
  • That kind of underlying approach to our gender doesn’t seem to me to have changed an iota.
    — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 9 May 2018
  • There isn’t an iota of doubt that vaccines are a safe and effective way to prevent many diseases.
    — The Scientific American Staff, Scientific American, 24 June 2019
  • Once installed, a child seat impinges on only the last iota of front-seat travel for taller drivers.
    — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Hamas is not looking out for, caring one iota about their welfare and well- being.
    — CBS News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Plus there isn’t one iota, even one molecule of weird in your purr strategy.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 9 July 2022
  • If the statue changes that even an iota — a passer-by here and there, walking off dinner before a trip back through the tunnel — Davis will count it as progress.
    — Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 12 May 2022
  • Six years and one pandemic later, the owners’ standards have not slipped one iota.
    — Kitty Greenwald, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Yes, Orwell was flawed and committed many immoralities in his life, but that does not take away the genius of his work one iota.
    — Amity Shlaes, National Review, 8 Dec. 2023
  • A little offense en route — just like on Saturday night — would hurt them not one iota, either.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Uniloc seems to have searched for every iota of Google's business activity in a large state and thrown it into its lawsuit.
    — Joe Mullin, Ars Technica, 6 June 2017
  • Iowa State dictated the game in the Fiesta Bowl and didn’t deviate one iota from its identity to do so.
    — James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 4 Jan. 2021
  • Not that these carbon taxes would make an iota of a difference according to the IPCC’s models.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2018
  • Human nature hasn’t changed one iota over the millennia.
    — WSJ, 14 Aug. 2017
  • And at Georgetown, which seems to hit a new record-low acceptance rate each year, every iota of information could help.
    — Adam Harris, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2019

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