scarcely
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You have scarcely turned the first page when you meet with Smith’s influential paean to the productivity-enhancing principle of the division of labor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
While Le Pen beamed at the cameras, brushing off suggestions her deputy would mind being sidelined and insisting "our personal ambitions are absolutely irrelevant", he barely reacted and scarcely smiled.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
And yet they emerge with constitutional visions that could scarcely be further apart.
From Slate ● Jul. 2, 2026
Treasurys by internationals have scarcely fallen, while those of foreign private holdings have actually grown.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026
By the end of 1916, French and German troops were facing each other across a front that had scarcely changed since the fighting began in February.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
Vocabulary lists containing scarcely
"Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson
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The Monroe Doctrine (1823)
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Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
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