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as in minimally
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as in scantily
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Recent Examples of scantly
But Korean pop music has scantly been recognized in the larger pop or general categories at the Grammys.
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Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 2 Oct. 2025
Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 2 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scantly
Adverb
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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.—
Daniel Sperry,
Kansas City Star,
27 Jan. 2026
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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
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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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Last week, Paxton’s allies began running ads portraying Hunt as insufficiently conservative and too close to Democrats.—
Joseph Morton,
Dallas Morning News,
11 Feb. 2026
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But the campaign against Good is different—because The Homeland takes particular and perverse interest in women deemed insufficiently reverent of hearth and home.—
Ta-Nehisi Coates,
Vanity Fair,
26 Jan. 2026
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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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Maps show the location of the crash is sparely populated and the two-lane road has no street lighting.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
12 Aug. 2025
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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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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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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
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Fraser hopes against hope that this whole debacle will increase their tip, however meagerly.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Scantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scantly. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.
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