ever so
idiom
informal
: very
Thank you ever so much.
I'm ever so glad that you got better.
The violin was ever so slightly out of tune.
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Infrared imaging can help, but in an innovative twist, scientists decided to use lasers that make skin glow ever so faintly, revealing many fine hidden details of tattoos found on 1,200-year-old Peruvian mummies, according to a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2025
But the door is ever so slightly open for Baltimore.
—Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 20 Jan. 2025
Also, the Magic 7 Pro, like the last few Magic phones, uses a slightly wider 19.5:9 screen aspect ratio (compared to the 20:9 used by other Android manufacturers), so the Magic 7 Pro’s 6.8-inch OLED screen is ever so slightly wider horizontally than other 6.8-inch Android phones.
—Ben Sin, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Price’s Harriet is tightly wound but never over the top so as to not be convincing, Stephens as the gun-toting First Lady commands the stage adding an ever so slight nuance of a certain familiar vice president.
—Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 15 Jan. 2025
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Ars Technica, 31 Jan. 2025
But the door is ever so slightly open for Baltimore.
—Greg Rosenstein, NBC News, 20 Jan. 2025
Also, the Magic 7 Pro, like the last few Magic phones, uses a slightly wider 19.5:9 screen aspect ratio (compared to the 20:9 used by other Android manufacturers), so the Magic 7 Pro’s 6.8-inch OLED screen is ever so slightly wider horizontally than other 6.8-inch Android phones.
—Ben Sin, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
Price’s Harriet is tightly wound but never over the top so as to not be convincing, Stephens as the gun-toting First Lady commands the stage adding an ever so slight nuance of a certain familiar vice president.
—Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 15 Jan. 2025
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“Ever so.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ever%20so. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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