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as in barely
by a very small margin
I thought the first one was slightly better
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as in little
in a very small quantity or degree
he was slightly curious about the identity of the wine, but not enough to bother asking
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Recent Examples of slightly
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Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Oct. 2025
All of them had very low rankings for student selectivity and were fairly low for education and career outcomes, but were slightly better ranked for the campus safety and cost and financing rankings.
—Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
The heels retail for $540, and feature an almond, pointed-toe design with a slightly square tip.
—Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2025
This may be due to its flavor, which is described as earthy, citrusy, and slightly sweet.
—Brittany Lubeck, Verywell Health, 14 Oct. 2025
Despite its smaller vessel, the throw is impressive, filling a room with rare oud—slightly sweet, delicately smoky, and steeped in sophistication.
—Michael Stefanov, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2025
The fluctuations have a slightly larger magnitude on large-scales than small-scales, again consistent with inflation.
—Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025
The fabric has also been slightly redistributed around the roof area, where Heimplanet adds in a new peak support design for better moisture management.
—New Atlas, 14 Oct. 2025
In the ’50s, before digital audio, the audio strips were on the inside of the film strip’s perforations, meaning the image itself was slightly narrower.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2025
Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 14 Oct. 2025
All of them had very low rankings for student selectivity and were fairly low for education and career outcomes, but were slightly better ranked for the campus safety and cost and financing rankings.
—Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
The heels retail for $540, and feature an almond, pointed-toe design with a slightly square tip.
—Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2025
This may be due to its flavor, which is described as earthy, citrusy, and slightly sweet.
—Brittany Lubeck, Verywell Health, 14 Oct. 2025
Despite its smaller vessel, the throw is impressive, filling a room with rare oud—slightly sweet, delicately smoky, and steeped in sophistication.
—Michael Stefanov, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2025
The fluctuations have a slightly larger magnitude on large-scales than small-scales, again consistent with inflation.
—Big Think, 14 Oct. 2025
The fabric has also been slightly redistributed around the roof area, where Heimplanet adds in a new peak support design for better moisture management.
—New Atlas, 14 Oct. 2025
In the ’50s, before digital audio, the audio strips were on the inside of the film strip’s perforations, meaning the image itself was slightly narrower.
—Brian Welk, IndieWire, 14 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slightly
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The ink is barely dry on Filip Gustavsson’s extension, but even though his signature is legible and that $34 million over five years starting next season is guaranteed and legally binding, Gustavsson still had butterflies heading into Thursday’s opener.—
Michael Russo,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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Angelica had barely a decade left, but Eliza lived another half century.—
Jane Kamensky,
The Atlantic,
10 Oct. 2025
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Made in Ancient Egypt, which opened this month at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum, features commemorative stela, golden coffins and masks, and sundry curios created in a style that changed very little down the centuries.—
Brendan Ruberry,
semafor.com,
13 Oct. 2025
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Oil prices were little changed in early Asian trade on Friday after falling more than 1% in the previous session.—
Spencer Kimball,Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
10 Oct. 2025
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The Yellow Jackets scored three times in just over three minutes on three huge plays.—
Updated October 10,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
10 Oct. 2025
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The area is mostly agricultural land just east of the Sacramento River and a few miles west of Interstate 5.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
10 Oct. 2025
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Indeed, while other nominally communist countries, such as Vietnam and China, have facilitated the development of a private sphere in their economies in the past several decades, officials in Havana have in practice restricted such growth so as not to threaten state enterprises.—
Joseph J. Gonzalez,
The Conversation,
3 Oct. 2025
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The campaign also seeks to sow confusion among voters who lean towards PAS, by promoting nominally pro-EU candidates and parties who many suspect of harboring ties to Russia.—
Christian Edwards,
CNN Money,
26 Sep. 2025
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In 2018, the progressive Nebraska nonprofit leader narrowly beat a moderate former Democratic congressman in the primary for Omaha’s seat.—
Eleanor Mueller,
semafor.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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The Bengals got to the Super Bowl during the 2021 season, only to narrowly lose to the Los Angeles Rams at SoFi Stadium, the Rams' house.—
Robert Marvi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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Chicken farming contributes non-negligibly to Earth’s greenhouse gas emissions, albeit less so than the beef and lamb industries.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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The Moon, whose magnetic field is negligibly small, does not regulate itself in this fashion at all.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
4 Sep. 2025
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Advertisement The question of Palestinian statehood What remains somewhat unanswered for now is the future of a Palestinian state.—
Callum Sutherland,
Time,
9 Oct. 2025
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In August 1974, Kenneth Weaver, an assistant editor of National Geographic magazine, provided an excellent description of a comet somewhat comparable to Lemmon.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
8 Oct. 2025
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“Slightly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slightly. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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