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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The bridges are barely a few millimeters wide, hollowed out to save even more weight, while the winding rotor has been minimized to the essentials.—
Anthony DeMarco,
Forbes.com,
1 Apr. 2025 -
More news: Dodgers Make Trade, Acquire Pitcher From Red Sox on Opening Day After being removed from his most recent start, Sasaki was shown on camera in the Dodgers' dugout, barely constraining his emotions after another difficult outing.—
Ron Estes,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Mar. 2025
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The Club World Cup final will see two teams share a scarcely believable $70m prize pot: $40m to the winners, $30m to the losers.—
Philip Buckingham,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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Yet that money has scarcely made a dent in the debt, and chunks of it have been wasted on yet more shoddy decision-making.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
The Athletic,
18 Mar. 2025
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Shared by Abbott along with the Daily Mail and numerous X users, the video from September shows the two CBP agents cutting a section of wire, albeit from a minutely different angle.—
Bayliss Wagner,
Austin American-Statesman,
4 Jan. 2024
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First the festivals, then New York and L.A., then the world would bear witness to her childhood fears, her daily passions and frustrations, her minutely observed existence, all tastefully packaged within, for instance, a buddy comedy or an interplanetary embezzlement plot.—
Hannah Gold,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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“Scantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scantly. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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