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Editorial note

This study's dataset is much too narrowly scoped to be making the sweeping statements in this article.

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Parts of speech1

Quick take

Closely; by a narrow margin.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of narrowly gathered in one view.

adverb

Closely; by a narrow margin.

adverb

In a narrow manner; without flexibility or latitude.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for narrowly.

adverb

Closely; by a narrow margin.

adverb

In a narrow manner; without flexibility or latitude.

Example sentences

This study's dataset is much too narrowly scoped to be making the sweeping statements in this article.

There's a bunch of people working on a bunch of projects with, for the most part, narrowly defined goals.

It is narrowly true that the libressl devs are not cryptographers, but that's also quite misleading.

For the most part I keep the tags narrowly focused and nearly always have multiple tags per link.

And they see a narrowly targeted list of people with a highly correlated list of interests and purchasing tendencies and value it appropriately.

I think a more narrowly focused one that tracked 'furthest reach' rather than state religion would be more interesting..

But don't worry, it's not like you narrowly missed winning the lottery.

I think a good middle-ground would be to have more narrowly scoped behavior.

Mob justice is very definitely a response to feelings that the conventional justice system is either too slow, too narrowly drawn, or too favouritist to address actual problems.

I was narrowly objecting to the claim that there was no accusation.

In the US treason is very narrowly defined by the Constitution to be (paraphrasing) intentionally waging war against the US or aiding the enemy, confirmed by two witnesses to the act.

If you bifurcate your topics into 100 narrowly focused interest areas everybody individually subscribes around, you lose the inherent usefulness of being exposed to new topics you wouldn't have otherwise found.

Quote examples

I just wanted to point out that said debate would hinge on more than a narrowly semantic question about the meaning of "man".

The statement "you are clueless" in response to "you are thinking too narrowly" is hardly the "height of incivility", especially when the comment of thinking narrowly was off base by a long way.

You won't ever think "I can't possibly accept that Java job, it's in the Mining industry, I only have Telecomms Java experience!", whereas other job roles can find themselves too narrowly specialised in an industry.

But she does suggest she has important advice to offer when she says "why won’t you let me give you what I have?", and my take is that her advice is only narrowly applicable to women like her.