meagerly

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Recent Examples of meagerly When opportunities arise, whether lowly paid or not, we’re often left with no other choice than to take the role that pays meagerly. Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 1 Sep. 2025 Fraser hopes against hope that this whole debacle will increase their tip, however meagerly. Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for meagerly
Adverb
  • Their responses, which have been edited slightly for length, can be found below.
    Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Oct. 2025
  • All of them had very low rankings for student selectivity and were fairly low for education and career outcomes, but were slightly better ranked for the campus safety and cost and financing rankings.
    Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Made in Ancient Egypt, which opened this month at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum, features commemorative stela, golden coffins and masks, and sundry curios created in a style that changed very little down the centuries.
    Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Oil prices were little changed in early Asian trade on Friday after falling more than 1% in the previous session.
    Spencer Kimball,Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Indeed, while other nominally communist countries, such as Vietnam and China, have facilitated the development of a private sphere in their economies in the past several decades, officials in Havana have in practice restricted such growth so as not to threaten state enterprises.
    Joseph J. Gonzalez, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The campaign also seeks to sow confusion among voters who lean towards PAS, by promoting nominally pro-EU candidates and parties who many suspect of harboring ties to Russia.
    Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025

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“Meagerly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/meagerly. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.

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