as in never
in no way or under no circumstances
The food was so burnt that it was not edible.
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Adverb
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The latter approach, which requires the use of one or more drills, has never been tried before, but touch and go is tried and true; NASA's OSIRIS-REx probe and Japan's Hayabusa2 used it to snag samples of the asteroids Bennu and Ryugu, respectively.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
29 May 2025 -
For growth-minded businesses, the path to scale has never been more complex.—
Niki Jorgensen,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
Adverb
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Commercial flights, meanwhile, are rarely convenient for such short-haul trips.—
Amira El-Fekki,
MSNBC Newsweek,
28 May 2025
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But historian Stein pointed out that progress is rarely linear.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
28 May 2025
Adverb
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The characterizations are flat, the would-be quippy dialogue rarely elicits laughs, and the action sequences seldom rise above the level of satisfactory.—
Staff Author Published,
EW.com,
22 May 2025
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Those litigants generally have been treated leniently by judges who recognize their inexperience; they seldom are fined, though their cases may be dismissed.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
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“Not.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/not. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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