1
as in minimally
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2
as in scantily
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Adverb
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Ophelia barely registers; Gertrude gets less than two lines.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Jan. 2025 -
Yet in less than two years, that island has been whittled down by the sea to barely a dot — not much remains in the third photograph, dating to the end of 2024.—
Stefanie Waldek,
Space.com,
18 Jan. 2025
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Coffers scarcely contained enough money to pay staff.—
Ishani Desai,
Sacramento Bee,
12 Jan. 2025
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The book will therefore appear January 14 (following a leak that rocked the publishing world), scarcely a month after Francis’s 88th birthday, under the appropriate if slightly unimaginative title Hope.—
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airmail.news,
11 Jan. 2025
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How state argued before a federal appeals court The number of hate groups had minutely declined since 2021, but has been slowly rising in the years since.—
Angele Latham,
The Tennessean,
9 July 2024
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The movie's pace picks up again as a new set of volunteers and paid professionals dig — using rigid standards and minutely recording their progress so that scientists around the world would accept the findings — under the Clovis levels, nine feet below the surface of the land.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American-Statesman,
22 Oct. 2024
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“Scantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scantly. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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