narrowly in All languages combined

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{
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "broadly"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The court applied the definition of \"worker\" extremely narrowly, leaving out many people who work."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you do something narrowly, you do it in a limited way."
      ],
      "id": "simple-narrowly-en-adv-GCoR3ljF"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He narrowly avoided death."
        },
        {
          "text": "She narrowly lost the race."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you narrowly miss something, you miss it by a very small distance."
      ],
      "id": "simple-narrowly-en-adv-67EGs-EA"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnɛroʊli/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnærəʊli/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-narrowly.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "narrowly"
}

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{
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "broadly"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The court applied the definition of \"worker\" extremely narrowly, leaving out many people who work."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you do something narrowly, you do it in a limited way."
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He narrowly avoided death."
        },
        {
          "text": "She narrowly lost the race."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you narrowly miss something, you miss it by a very small distance."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnɛroʊli/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈnærəʊli/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-narrowly.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "narrowly"
}

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"narrowly" meaning in All languages combined

Adverb [English]