Give the four numbers closest to zero:

Take the two shortest strings in a list:

Do the same using the operator form of TakeSmallestBy :

Take three smallest Quantity lengths according to their distance to :

Take the three DateObject expressions with the smallest day of the month:

Take the two shortest strings in an association:

Give the four numbers closest to zero or as many as are available if fewer:

The discovery date value for some planets is missing:

By default, Missing [] and several other symbolic expressions are excluded if returned by the selection function:

Get the two smallest elements by magnitude in a list:

Get the positions of the two smallest elements by magnitude in a list:

Get the two smallest magnitudes in a list:

Get the two smallest elements by magnitude in a list along with their positions:

Get the two smallest elements by magnitude in a list with their positions given first:

Get associations containing the element, position and Abs value of the two smallest elements by magnitude in a list:

Take a few English words:

They can be translated to Spanish with WordTranslation , which gives a list of possibilities:

These are the smallest two words according to canonical order:

These are the smallest two English words according to canonical order of their Spanish translations:

Use properties to show simultaneously the English word and its translation to Spanish:

Construct a TabularColumn object with 100 words:

Select the five shortest words:

Normalize the result to a list:

Find the four rows in a Tabular object with smallest values in a given column:

Use general functional notation instead of the column name:

Take a dataset of the solar system planets:

Find the three planets with the smallest number of moons:

Take a list of integer 3-vectors:

These are their norms:

Select the three vectors with smallest norms, by default sorting numerically those norms:

Sorting the norms by canonical order can give a different result:

Find the eight capitals of continental US states that are closest to Kansas City:

Find the five oldest James Bond movies:

Find the 10 countries with the shortest names:

From the BRICS group of countries, give the country that is closest to the current location:

Find the seven US states with the smallest number of neighboring states and show them:

Find the five constellations with the smallest number of bright stars, showing how many each one has:

TakeSmallestBy [list,f,n,p] is effectively equivalent to Part [list,TakeSmallest [Map [f,list]"index",n,p]]:

TakeSmallestBy [{e₁,e₂,…},f,n] compares values f[e_i] using NumericalOrder by default:

MinimalBy [{e₁,e₂,…},f,n] compares values f[e_i] using canonical Order by default:

Both TakeSmallestBy and MinimalBy take an ordering function as fourth argument, which makes them effectively equivalent:

When there are common values of f[e_i] for different elements e_i in TakeSmallestBy [{e₁,e₂,…},f,n], the original order will be kept:

If fewer than the requested number of elements are present, TakeSmallestBy will not evaluate:

Use UpTo to get as many elements as possible:

If the f[e_i] are not comparable, TakeSmallestBy will not evaluate: