hardly
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The Nifty has delivered just 6% annualised dollar returns over the past decade - hardly attractive, especially in comparison with several other competing markets.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
I hardly write by myself at all anymore, and I’m trying to get better about that.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Inexperience has hardly been a barrier for those who want to start their own schools, as we have reported this year.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 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
Rufus and I hiked up the mountain—which isn’t really a mountain, but “hill” is just too tiny a word for it—till we got to the old tree that has no leaves and hardly any bark.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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