scantly

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scantly
Adverb
  • The timing of these cuts could not be worse for the millions of families barely scraping by like hers.
    Aisha Nyandoro, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Despite this, experts say barely any research is being done on this overlap.
    Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
Adverb
  • This time line implies life could have begun scarcely 300 million years after the big bang, perhaps even before the first recognizable galaxies formed.
    Conor Feehly, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2025
  • In a safe and prosperous quarter century, the most important city in the country has scarcely grown at all.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
Adverb
  • 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
  • Finally, this sleeping pad also gets top marks for the adjustability, using the brand’s reliable flat-lock air valve that can be minutely adjusted for different inflation levels, and deflates in just a few seconds.
    Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 11 Feb. 2025
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“Scantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scantly. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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