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Adverb
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The bridges are barely a few millimeters wide, hollowed out to save even more weight, while the winding rotor has been minimized to the essentials.—
Anthony DeMarco,
Forbes.com,
1 Apr. 2025 -
Ordinary language, after all, has a far shorter shelf life than does the elevated language of high literature; translations of Catullus that are barely twenty years old already feel dated.—
Daniel Mendelsohn,
New Yorker,
31 Mar. 2025
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Shared by Abbott along with the Daily Mail and numerous X users, the video from September shows the two CBP agents cutting a section of wire, albeit from a minutely different angle.—
Bayliss Wagner,
Austin American-Statesman,
4 Jan. 2024
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First the festivals, then New York and L.A., then the world would bear witness to her childhood fears, her daily passions and frustrations, her minutely observed existence, all tastefully packaged within, for instance, a buddy comedy or an interplanetary embezzlement plot.—
Hannah Gold,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
Adverb
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This time, her character is a human, Laurie Duffy, who's vacationing only somewhat successfully with two old friends (Michelle Monaghan's Jaclyn Lemon and Leslie Bibb's Kate Bohr).—
Raechal Shewfelt,
EW.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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After earlier demonstrations that were somewhat sporadic, Saturday marked the first attempt to surround all 277 of the automaker’s showrooms and service centers in the U.S. in hopes of deepening a recent decline in the company’s sales.—
Michael Liedtke,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2025
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The Club World Cup final will see two teams share a scarcely believable $70m prize pot: $40m to the winners, $30m to the losers.—
Philip Buckingham,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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Yet that money has scarcely made a dent in the debt, and chunks of it have been wasted on yet more shoddy decision-making.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
The Athletic,
18 Mar. 2025
Adverb
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In a situation that would rattle almost anyone on their first day at a new job, Dr. Mel remains as unruffled as her ponytail braid and still doesn’t have a hair out of place at hour 12 of the shift.—
Jen Chaney,
Vulture,
29 Mar. 2025
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Yes, the same brand that took it upon itself to almost reinvent the way motorcycles look.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
29 Mar. 2025
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“Minimally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minimally. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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