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as in barely
by a very small margin
I thought the first one was slightly better
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2
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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By Barry Levitt January 30, 2025 2:50 PM EST Owen Hendricks (Noah Centineo) went through hell in the Season 1 finale of Netflix’s The Recruit, barely making it out alive following an unsparingly violent mission.—
Barry Levitt,
TIME,
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It must also be recognized that even before the pandemic, barely half of students were meeting the state’s own standards in English language arts and even fewer met them in math.—
The Editorial Board,
Orange County Register,
28 Jan. 2025
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The yield has traded little changed around 1.64% in the week since.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
19 Jan. 2025
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But Wednesday had a feel of markets being closed as stocks were little changed across the board.—
JJ Kinahan,
Forbes,
10 Jan. 2025
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Violette’s final choice doesn’t make sense in the context of everything she’s experienced over the course of the film, and Florence’s just manifests too quickly.—
Esther Zuckerman,
IndieWire,
26 Jan. 2025
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The body and leg meat can be just as tasty with just a little extra preparation and special recipes.—
Peter Burke,
Fox News,
26 Jan. 2025
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Just past the Pegasus Fountain is the somewhat bizarre Dwarf Garden, with sculptures of 320-year-old mischievous-looking dwarves, which had a cameo appearance in the film.—
Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, contributor,
CNBC,
20 Jan. 2025
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TikTok crashed into this outcome somewhat chaotically.—
Alex Heath,
The Verge,
19 Jan. 2025
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“Slightly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slightly. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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