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hardly

[hahrd-lee] / ˈhɑrd li /


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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

North Macedonia were hopeless but it hardly matters.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 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

When he spoke it was so low I could hardly hear.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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