hardly
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Government today still manages fewer than 1 in 10 American bison, some 20,000 animals, a number that has hardly grown in a century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Few in finance today have much memory of the lost decade for U.S. stocks of the 2000s, but hardly any remember the much worse 1970s.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
The New Zealand landscape does echo the rolling hills of Central California, in a dry season, but it’s a dreary vision, hardly the paradise of Steinbeck’s memory, book or metaphor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The bond bear market of 2022 and 2023 was probably the worst in centuries, and hardly anyone talked about it, because it mostly hit pension funds and insurers rather than everyday investors.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026
There wasn’t a bush, hardly a flower, that Karel and I hadn’t looked at together, that didn’t have a bit of our feeling for each other still clinging to it.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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