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scarcely

adverb as in barely

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“Our world has become so Taylorized, we scarcely see it. It’s in every aspect of our lives,” says Robert Kanigel, author of “The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency.”

The surfeit of description can scarcely conceal the deficit of insight.

The Scotland players talked, and talked, and talked after sealing a place in the men's World Cup for the first time since 1998 with a scarcely believable 4-2 victory over group favourites Denmark.

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Svetlana’s face was transformed by the smile, and Penelope realized she was quite a young woman, scarcely older than Penelope herself.

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Penelope thought of the window seats at the Swanburne Academy, which were so full of embroidered pillows that one could scarcely find a place to sit and read.

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

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