1
as in minimally
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2
as in scantily
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By Barry Levitt January 30, 2025 2:50 PM EST Owen Hendricks (Noah Centineo) went through hell in the Season 1 finale of Netflix’s The Recruit, barely making it out alive following an unsparingly violent mission.—
Barry Levitt,
TIME,
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It must also be recognized that even before the pandemic, barely half of students were meeting the state’s own standards in English language arts and even fewer met them in math.—
The Editorial Board,
Orange County Register,
28 Jan. 2025
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And for a while, each couple scarcely amounts to more than a broad stroke and a conflict.—
Natalia Winkelman,
IndieWire,
27 Jan. 2025
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That’s scarcely a rounding error in a state with 39.43 million souls, give or take.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
The Mercury News,
21 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 2 Feb. 2025.
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