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as in barely
by a very small margin
was scarcely able to walk after the near-fatal accident
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as in no
certainly not
I scarcely think that one person being sick is an "epidemic"
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Recent Examples of scarcely
Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images Inside a conventional UFC venue, the sponsorships would scarcely merit notice.
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Nik Popli,
Time,
11 June 2026
For a young man who had scarcely left Utah in his youth, every corner seemed to be a revelation, of water buffalo shimmering from mud baths and children running down dirt roads.
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ABC News,
10 June 2026
The problem is that powering up the engines, idling them, and then using their massive power just to trundle around the tarmac is scarcely economical.
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David Szondy
june 07,
New Atlas,
7 June 2026
These are the shabby, vertiginous streets that Nobel Laureate author Orhan Pamuk eulogized in The Museum of Innocence, set in the 1970s, and until very recently the district had scarcely changed at all.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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Nik Popli,
Time,
11 June 2026
For a young man who had scarcely left Utah in his youth, every corner seemed to be a revelation, of water buffalo shimmering from mud baths and children running down dirt roads.
—
ABC News,
10 June 2026
The problem is that powering up the engines, idling them, and then using their massive power just to trundle around the tarmac is scarcely economical.
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David Szondy
june 07,
New Atlas,
7 June 2026
These are the shabby, vertiginous streets that Nobel Laureate author Orhan Pamuk eulogized in The Museum of Innocence, set in the 1970s, and until very recently the district had scarcely changed at all.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scarcely
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The low kick barely above the grass surface split two Jordan defenders and went into the left corner of the net.
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The Dodgers have built such a big lead in the division that the loss barely made a dent.
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Minimum deals can be no longer than two seasons in length.
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What has changed in recent years, however, is that prediction markets are no longer an obscure pastime enjoyed by political junkies.
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Meanwhile, the share of vote-by-mail ballots dropped slightly.
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And all gave slightly different advice.
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Sugar reconnects with Blaine, the security guard who’d never seen Casablanca, a golden-age Hollywood classic his mom named him after.
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Hezbollah was not part of the talks, which resulted in several ceasefire agreements that were never implemented on the ground.
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Like Eastern, the airline promised passengers that if a flight was full, the shuttle would roll out a second plane – even for just one passenger.
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As the four-day event continues today, Wednesday, June 24 through Friday, June 26, there’s no better time to snag the latest deals that just launched on site.
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But Lancaster County is hardly alone in Hispanic population growth for the Rock Hill region.
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The thought hardly goes through my mind when my reel pipes a high crescendo.
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“Scarcely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scarcely. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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