scantly

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Recent Examples of scantly But Korean pop music has scantly been recognized in the larger pop or general categories at the Grammys. Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 2 Oct. 2025
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Adverb
  • Despite the shutdown, ICE has been minimally impacted because Republican lawmakers approved $75 billion for ICE through another party-line budget reconciliation bill last year.
    Sam Gringlas, NPR, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Most of those groups don’t use the education system and only minimally use other city services, Zoppo-Sassu said.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 1 Apr. 2026
Adverb
  • Unaccustomed to living with someone like Sprinkles, Louise was nearly moved to tears by this delivery of weeds, but Lynn had barely noticed.
    Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The older son, Dustin, barely speaks, and baby James is wearing a grocery bag for a diaper.
    Francine Prose, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
Adverb
  • This leaves due diligence up to mostly voluntary investigation process, leaving environmental and human rights risks upstream insufficiently monitored.
    Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 27 Mar. 2026
  • At the regional level, Rodríguez argued that Latin America remains fragmented and insufficiently integrated, calling for closer cooperation in trade, infrastructure and finance.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2026
Adverb
  • In 2018, Medina became a co-author in the description of the Mashpi glass frog, an achievement any young biologist could scarcely hope for.
    Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2026
  • In the 1970s, the world of the watch was undergoing a revolution that even those who instigated it could scarcely understand.
    David Szondy March 28, New Atlas, 28 Mar. 2026
Adverb
  • Maps show the location of the crash is sparely populated and the two-lane road has no street lighting.
    Mark Price, Miami Herald, 12 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • According to François Godard, a media and telecoms analyst at Enders Analysis, the $71B Disney-Fox deal from late last decade, which was waved through by the EU but examined minutely, sets the closest recent precedent for Hollywood M&A in the continent.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Williams knows how to humanize this bare-bones vocabulary, minutely adjusting the voicing of a chord or caressing the last of a set of recurring motifs with a regretful ritardando.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Adverb
  • The image is tightly cropped, the carriage wheels slightly cut off.
    Hilton Als, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Improvements included plenty of new alien ships to battle, as well as an invincibility ability for your ship to make the levels slightly less challenging.
    Daryl Baxter, Space.com, 4 Apr. 2026
Adverb
  • When opportunities arise, whether lowly paid or not, we’re often left with no other choice than to take the role that pays meagerly.
    Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Fraser hopes against hope that this whole debacle will increase their tip, however meagerly.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025

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“Scantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scantly. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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