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Recent Examples of minimally
And while the club has added to that group only minimally so far, a good portion of those players will be relied upon again in 2026.
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Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2026
Keep your water faucets dripping, wrap your pipes in minimally heated areas with piping insulation, and leave doors open to allow heat to flow through your home.
—Kaicey Baylor, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2026
While order throughput has doubled, staffing has increased only minimally.
—Steve Banker, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
The surgery would most likely be a minimally invasive arthroscopic procedure done as an out patient.
—Harlan Selesnick, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2026
The minimally contrasting color design easily fits a variety of aesthetics if your vibe is elegant and understated.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 23 Jan. 2026
Chai uses fully oxidized black tea plus spices (often with milk), while green tea is minimally processed.
—Ayesha Gulzar, Verywell Health, 20 Jan. 2026
The healthiest choices are minimally processed, without additives and sweeteners.
—Randi Gollin, Martha Stewart, 18 Jan. 2026
Choose whole or minimally processed foods.
—Merve Ceylan, Health, 12 Jan. 2026
Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 27 Jan. 2026
Keep your water faucets dripping, wrap your pipes in minimally heated areas with piping insulation, and leave doors open to allow heat to flow through your home.
—Kaicey Baylor, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2026
While order throughput has doubled, staffing has increased only minimally.
—Steve Banker, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
The surgery would most likely be a minimally invasive arthroscopic procedure done as an out patient.
—Harlan Selesnick, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2026
The minimally contrasting color design easily fits a variety of aesthetics if your vibe is elegant and understated.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 23 Jan. 2026
Chai uses fully oxidized black tea plus spices (often with milk), while green tea is minimally processed.
—Ayesha Gulzar, Verywell Health, 20 Jan. 2026
The healthiest choices are minimally processed, without additives and sweeteners.
—Randi Gollin, Martha Stewart, 18 Jan. 2026
Choose whole or minimally processed foods.
—Merve Ceylan, Health, 12 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for minimally
Adverb
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Once this economic leveling is accomplished, homestead exemptions can be reduced slightly.—
Eleanor Dearman,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
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Hudsonian whimbrels, to be exact, shorebirds about the size of crows with long, thin, slightly curved beaks.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
14 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Her neighbors live within easy walking distance but their homes are barely visible, one to the next, because of folds in the hills and the density of trees and cacti.—
Paige Williams,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
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Most notable is the addition of an interchangeable dual-lace wrap, which sweeps from the barely there midsole and finishes with a bow atop the standard shoelaces.—
Riley Jones,
Footwear News,
13 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Williams knows how to humanize this bare-bones vocabulary, minutely adjusting the voicing of a chord or caressing the last of a set of recurring motifs with a regretful ritardando.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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When the mask slipped or seemed to slip in the breakup video, however minutely, their counterparts — gay shitposters — pissed through the gap.—
Paul McAdory,
Them.,
9 Dec. 2025
Adverb
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But Korean pop music has scantly been recognized in the larger pop or general categories at the Grammys.—
Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
2 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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Back then, the Red Planet was regarded as marginally inhabitable.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
15 Feb. 2026
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Denied an earlier assist when Joe Willock was marginally ruled offside, Ramsey swept home a precious winner.—
Anantaajith Raghuraman,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Germany's Lena Duerr will go into the second run narrowly behind Brignone, while another Italian, Sofia Goggia, sits in third place.—
Sean Nevin,
NBC news,
15 Feb. 2026
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Any medical use should remain narrowly tailored, physician-directed, and tightly regulated.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
14 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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But there were other vital and somewhat uniquely Kansas City elements that had to coalesce, too.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
15 Feb. 2026
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The president’s recent announcement of progress has been somewhat overshadowed by violent crimes making headlines daily.—
Alexandra Mendoza,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Feb. 2026
Adverb
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Washington didn’t join the Europeans’ report on Navalny’s death, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio scarcely mentioned Russia at the Munich Security Conference.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
16 Feb. 2026
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My mother described herself as looking like a scarcely-living pregnant skeleton.—
Lesley Stahl,
CBS News,
16 Feb. 2026
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“Minimally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/minimally. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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