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Recent Examples of fractionally
His grounder exit speed is fractionally improved, but still well below average.
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Tony Blengino, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
The pan-European Stoxx 600 index provisionally closed fractionally above the flatline.
—Chloe Taylor,jenni Reid,holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2025
Though the blast was intensely loud, the majority of its force shot harmlessly over Baxter’s head, and the nearest hill shaded him from the heat rays until the fireball was at least seven miles high and its energy was all but fractionally spent.
—Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
Tony Blengino, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
The pan-European Stoxx 600 index provisionally closed fractionally above the flatline.
—Chloe Taylor,jenni Reid,holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2025
Though the blast was intensely loud, the majority of its force shot harmlessly over Baxter’s head, and the nearest hill shaded him from the heat rays until the fireball was at least seven miles high and its energy was all but fractionally spent.
—Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fractionally
Adverb
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Use a milk frother to blend it imperceptibly in your drink and add a dash of your favorite natural sweetener.—
Brianna Peters,
Vogue,
1 Oct. 2025
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The dynamic between them begins to shift—imperceptibly, naturally, painfully.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
20 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Matter clumped and clustered together under the relentless pull of gravity, and structures grew and grew on progressively larger scales.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
3 Oct. 2025
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The non-users had higher negative symptoms at the start, but these improved progressively over a six-month period.—
Angelica Stabile,
FOXNews.com,
2 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Social media spaces are increasingly closed and personalized; where random Twitter figures could bring their ideas to the president in 2018, now only the most manic — Loomer, the MAGA legal figure Mike Davis — cut through, and benefit.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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Meet Nashville's new crime-fighting Clydesdale Metro Nashville mounted patrol officer Michael Douglas squeezed a three-foot-long rubber chicken, producing an increasingly louder and closer screeching sound to try and provoke a 1,700-pound Clydesdale named Ross.—
Laura L. Davis,
Nashville Tennessean,
6 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Hughes and others began resisting orders in passive ways, showing up late or taking patrols extra slowly.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
4 Oct. 2025
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This rift causes the black hole to slowly evaporate.—
Dipangkar Dutta,
The Conversation,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Fractionally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fractionally. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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