NARROWLY Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

narrowly

adverb

Definition of narrowly

as in slightly

by a very small margin they narrowly escaped with their lives

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Recent Examples of narrowly And in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed has narrowly won the Democratic Senate nomination, a victory for the party's progressive wing. — Brittney Melton, NPR, 28 Oct. 2026 The sun wasn't even up when a truck barreled down Fellsway East in Malden, Massachusetts, and crashed into a tree, narrowly missing people standing nearby. — Brandon Truitt, CBS News, 28 Oct. 2026 Royal Caribbean The cruise company beat Wall Street's expectations for earnings per share and narrowly missed on revenue. — Catriona Marangi, CNBC, 27 Oct. 2026 But Talarico narrowly leads Paxton in most polls of their crucial Senate contest. — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 27 Oct. 2026 On Monday morning, Sundin was grateful the church building avoided major structural damage, because the vehicle narrowly missed a column. — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 26 Oct. 2026 In 2026, Keiko Fujimori narrowly defeated a left-wing candidate to win the Peruvian presidency, while most recently, in Colombia, conservative attorney Abelardo de la Espriella bested left-wing Senator Ivan Cepeda. — David Unsworth, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026 In 2022, Democrat Wiley Nickel ran as a moderate and narrowly won North Carolina's 13th Congressional District by about 9,000 votes. — ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026 In another warning sign for Republicans, Kansas’ Democratic gubernatorial nominee Cindy Holscher and Senate nominee Adam Hamilton both narrowly led their Republican counterparts, within the poll’s margin of error. — Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026

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Adverb

The course of Alzheimer’s disease is slightly slower than that of Lewy body dementia, according to Vossel.

— Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026
Although Ossoff is heavily favored to win reelection, Bottoms is trailing Jackson slightly in the RealClearPolitics average of polls heading into Election Day.

— Anna Giaritelli, The Washington Examiner, 29 Oct. 2026