Meaning & use
barely
Only just; by a very small margin.
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She barely passed the exam with a score of sixty-one percent.
We barely made it to the airport before the gate closed.
A note on using this word
Placed before the verb it modifies and often paired with 'when' or 'before' to show a near failure.
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