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Recent Examples of minimally
Frozen vegetables are minimally processed to remove inedible parts and extend their shelf life.
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Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 19 Sep. 2025
Fertility rates among women in their early 30s declined only minimally and actually rose modestly for those aged 35 to 49.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
Bulk crowdwork—or outsourcing data annotation to workers who are minimally trained—can struggle to provide the level of nuance, cultural sensitivity and domain knowledge that's needed in complex multimodal AI systems, like medical records, finance or multilingual dialogues.
—Gangesh Pathak, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Services range from nonoperative treatment options and minimally invasive outpatient surgery to complex and life-enhancing surgical procedures, according to Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine.
—Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 16 Sep. 2025
Queen of Cups makes low-intervention wine, using the wild yeast that grows on the grapes, filtering the wines only as needed, and using sulfite preservatives as minimally as possible.
—Sarah Lapidus, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Moving across the Pacific Ocean in December meant packing minimally and leaving the rest behind.
—Nicol Natale, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
This could revolutionize treatments for conditions like uterine cancer, endometriosis, or fibroids, all of which currently lack precise, minimally invasive drug delivery options.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
More severe hemorrhoids may require a minimally invasive procedure to cut off the blood supply or shrink the tissue.
—Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 19 Sep. 2025
Fertility rates among women in their early 30s declined only minimally and actually rose modestly for those aged 35 to 49.
—Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
Bulk crowdwork—or outsourcing data annotation to workers who are minimally trained—can struggle to provide the level of nuance, cultural sensitivity and domain knowledge that's needed in complex multimodal AI systems, like medical records, finance or multilingual dialogues.
—Gangesh Pathak, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Services range from nonoperative treatment options and minimally invasive outpatient surgery to complex and life-enhancing surgical procedures, according to Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine.
—Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 16 Sep. 2025
Queen of Cups makes low-intervention wine, using the wild yeast that grows on the grapes, filtering the wines only as needed, and using sulfite preservatives as minimally as possible.
—Sarah Lapidus, AZCentral.com, 8 Sep. 2025
Moving across the Pacific Ocean in December meant packing minimally and leaving the rest behind.
—Nicol Natale, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
This could revolutionize treatments for conditions like uterine cancer, endometriosis, or fibroids, all of which currently lack precise, minimally invasive drug delivery options.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2025
More severe hemorrhoids may require a minimally invasive procedure to cut off the blood supply or shrink the tissue.
—Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for minimally
Adverb
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Kimmel made the comments slightly over 17 minutes into his opening monologue, shortly before the program’s first commercial break.—
Christopher Tremoglie,
The Washington Examiner,
24 Sep. 2025
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These offers are similar, both offer a bonus worth $200 with slightly different spending requirements.—
Ryley Amond,
CNBC,
24 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Although the closures account for barely 1% of Starbucks’ footprint, the cost-cutting includes the layoffs of roughly 900 employees.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
26 Sep. 2025
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So only one overwhelmed person at a time was allowed to weep when daily frustrations piled up, like barely being able to keep up with a busy lunch crowd or when the aluminum on the bottom of the pan burned and ruined the custard, forcing them to throw it away and waste dozens of eggs.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
26 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The title may have the tang of a prog-rock album, but the book is witty, minutely detailed, and braced by common sense—a welcome gift in an often obsessive environment.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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The statements are minutely detailed, suggesting the military keeps a close eye on its finances.—
Nora Gamez Torres,
Miami Herald,
6 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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Scrambled to a marginally acceptable 10-6 straght-up, but two games under against the spread will never be OK.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
25 Sep. 2025
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Massachusetts has a marginally longer open enrollment period, running from November 1, 2025 to January 23 rather than January 15 next year.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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At the end of the episode, having narrowly escaped being chased, Drake enters an elevator as an instrumental plays in the background.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
23 Sep. 2025
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Prescriptions are no longer required to get the vaccine, after the measure was narrowly rejected in a 6-6 tie broken by the chair of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at their meeting Friday, CBS News reported.—
Evan Moore,
Charlotte Observer,
23 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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His phenomenal start at Anfield is why the No 9 role is such a big discussion topic and why his actions were somewhat understandable.—
Andy Jones,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025
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Why OpenAI wants massive computing power The kind of numbers OpenAI and friends throw around—10 gigawatts here, $500 billion there—are somewhat staggering and mind-boggling in scope for the layperson who might not be familiar with the massive scale of Internet infrastructure.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
24 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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His general advice to people attempting to craft humane, precise, and literate prose has scarcely aged, and his own bracing style still informs and delights.—
Ben Yagoda,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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The finish to a season is scarcely more predictive than the start of the season.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The country is installing wind and solar projects faster than any other nation and today has almost half the world’s wind farms, USA TODAY previously reported.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
24 Sep. 2025
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There is nothing harder in sports right now than winning a Ryder Cup on the road, and New Yorkers will almost certainly make sure that reality remains intact.—
Ian O'Connor,
New York Times,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Minimally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minimally. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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