almost never

idiom

: hardly ever
She almost never misses a game.

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And so the idea that a show that almost never gets done, Merrily never gets done, Chess rarely ever gets done. Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025 Still, the dollar amount at issue is small, and experts note that federal prosecutors almost never pursue mortgage-fraud cases under $500,000. Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 13 Oct. 2025 For Nebraska in the past decade, almost never. Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025 That confusion is further reflected by the manic hyper-subjectivity of Bronstein’s filmmaking, which boxes Linda into a close-up so tight that everything around her — especially her unnamed daughter, who almost never appears on screen — might as well be a disembodied echo of her own anxiety. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for almost never

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“Almost never.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/almost%20never. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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