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Adverb
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Ellie’s resourcefulness, and her understanding that she can be bitten without turning, barely gets them out alive, and forces her to tell Dina the truth about her immunity.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
4 May 2025 -
Just a whisper south of Palm Beach, the tiny seaside town of Manalapan—barely 2.4 square miles and home to fewer than 500 residents—has suddenly become the South Florida destination of choice for the world’s wealthiest home buyers.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
4 May 2025
Adverb
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The downtown side of the bridge is also minutely taller than the church side, leading to some overconfident drivers lodging themselves on the other end.—
Joseph States,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Apr. 2025
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Finally, this sleeping pad also gets top marks for the adjustability, using the brand’s reliable flat-lock air valve that can be minutely adjusted for different inflation levels, and deflates in just a few seconds.—
Maggie Slepian,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Feb. 2025
Adverb
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With the team in a somewhat barren run, Inter supporters would love to see the 28-year-old making a trademark surge into the box and bag a crucial goal.—
Adam Digby,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2025
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Though their politics are somewhat opaque, the Gemstone women operate within highly conservative evangelical networks.—
Scottie Andrew,
CNN Money,
3 May 2025
Adverb
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Despite giving up scarcely any power, the Glazers banked around £70million from the flotation, 50 per cent of the proceeds.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
14 May 2025
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His preferred model instead invokes the putative decay of another mysterious aspect of cosmology, dark matter—thought to be a substance that gravitationally binds galaxies together but otherwise scarcely interacts with the rest of the universe at all.—
Lyndie Chiou,
Scientific American,
30 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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With this one invention, millions of secretaries would soon be relieved of the drudgery of constant retyping, and the business office would have a boon in productivity almost as profound as the one the typewriter itself had ushered in long before.—
Pat Butler,
Sportico.com,
16 May 2025
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The school reported $2.11 million in other reportable compensation to Cohen, almost half of which would presumably cover the buyout.—
Ryan Kartje,
Los Angeles Times,
16 May 2025
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“Minimally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minimally. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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