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not very well

ADVERB
indifferently
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Returning to the airwaves after he missed last Friday's show, he said his dad was "not very well at the moment" but is "still with us".

From BBC Mar. 13, 2026

“The cleaning is often not very well done, so it’s better to do it yourself, especially the toilets,” said Botton, who was incarcerated between 2020 and 2022 in Paris-La Santé.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 21, 2025

Copland’s score was recorded, not very well, and blasted too loudly.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 22, 2025

Infuse in particular is not very well known, but an integral technique to draw out flavor.

From Salon Sep. 25, 2024

The value of the grand unification energy is not very well known, but it would probably have to be at least a thousand million million GeV.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking




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