hardly
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So it's hardly a surprise that Starr pitches up to our interview with a sort of celestial confidence.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
The move comes at a time of growing investor worry that Big Tech spending on AI is getting out of hand, although outlays on computing infrastructure have hardly lost steam.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Then again, the cycle identified by Kaeppel is hardly the only calendar-based anomaly to be identified by market researchers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026
“Although this signals that the U.S. has rebounded from the devastating losses that occurred during the pandemic, returning to 2019 conditions hardly puts us out of the woods.”
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
I hardly noticed the fog as it blotted out the cliffs.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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