narrowly
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- r in a narrow manner; not allowing for exceptions
he interprets the law narrowly
- Joe Chip and his colleaguesall but one of themhave narrowly escaped an explosion at a moon base.
- Put another way, McCain looks at the moment to have a narrowly better chance of beating the New York Senator than he does the relative newcomer from Illinois.
- In 1959, he madeand has just narrowly losta bet that man would land on the moon by June 1969.