1
as in minimally
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2
as in scantily
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scantly
Adverb
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Ophelia barely registers; Gertrude gets less than two lines.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
18 Jan. 2025 -
Lows at Tamarack, Brundage Basin in McCall and in Sun Valley are expected to be close to zero every day, with highs barely hitting 20.—
Vincent Medina,
Idaho Statesman,
18 Jan. 2025
Adverb
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And for a while, each couple scarcely amounts to more than a broad stroke and a conflict.—
Natalia Winkelman,
IndieWire,
27 Jan. 2025
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That’s scarcely a rounding error in a state with 39.43 million souls, give or take.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
The Mercury News,
21 Jan. 2025
Adverb
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How state argued before a federal appeals court The number of hate groups had minutely declined since 2021, but has been slowly rising in the years since.—
Angele Latham,
The Tennessean,
9 July 2024
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The movie's pace picks up again as a new set of volunteers and paid professionals dig — using rigid standards and minutely recording their progress so that scientists around the world would accept the findings — under the Clovis levels, nine feet below the surface of the land.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American-Statesman,
22 Oct. 2024
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“Scantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scantly. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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