barely sufficient
Example Sentences
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“Resources that were already barely sufficient for the poorest will now have to stretch even further.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
The BBC understands that conditions in the camps are unsanitary, food barely sufficient, and many of the freed workers, like Mike, are in poor health.
From BBC • Feb. 26, 2025
Arif Ullah, an 18-year-old refugee living in the camps, said the existing food allowance was barely sufficient.
From Reuters • Feb. 17, 2023
Another is the avoidance of the motivational problem associated with an income barely sufficient to reduce the subsidy.
From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2017
His estimate is that the population of England contains seven hundred thousand families, equal to a total of three million souls, ‘with means of subsistence, insufficient, barely sufficient, or precarious.’
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)
