scarcely
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But if the great promise of automation is that it gives employees more opportunities to practice hospitality, it’s worth asking what that hospitality looks like when customers scarcely encounter those employees in the first place.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2026
Alexander’s relentless, scarcely human drive is, in any case, unimaginable without Homer’s moral distinction between pleasure and often terrible glory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
But taking the exams abroad is scarcely affordable for many Iranians.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Of course, there isn’t, but that scarcely matters when you’re following along a mind as full and nimble as Diamond’s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
But when he complied, I scarcely knew how to begin; such horror had I of the possible answers.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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The Monroe Doctrine (1823)
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