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View definitions for barely

barely

adjective as in not quite

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One man at the detention center, open barely a month, tried to kill himself, officials said.

It was so deeply buried under the torrent of Trumpian insults and invective, and so badly obscured by an epoch-shifting moment of American self-humiliation on the global stage, as barely to be discernible.

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In addition to becoming a social media phenomenon, film crews also have an affinity for the city’s barely shaded streets.

A link to tickets dropped on Fingerprints Music’s website on Sept. 9, which fans barely gave a chance to breathe.

His impressive fact-finding mission includes interviews with three of the performer-decoys — two girls and a boy — who were barely adults themselves when they were hired for this high-wire, high-pressure improv gig.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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