barely

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PHOENIX—Cori Close was a rookie assistant women’s basketball coach at UCLA, barely past her playing career at UC Santa Barbara, when she met the most famous coach in college basketball history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

In photographs from that week, I barely recognize the woman staring back at me.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

ChatGPT maker OpenAI recently said it would shut down its AI video generation app Sora, barely six months after its launch, in a shift towards business tools.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Price's dominance is such that she has barely lost a round in any of her wins.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

The one time I did see him— when we all went to see the trains at the arboretum right before Christmas—I was so nervous I barely said a word.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison