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narrowly
adverb
1 one bullet struck the car, narrowly missing him:
only just, just, barely, scarcely, hardly, by a hair's breadth, by a very small margin, by the narrowest of margins, by the skin of one's teeth, by a nose;
informal by a whisker.
2 she looked at me narrowly:
closely, carefully, searchingly, scrutinizingly, attentively;
meticulously, scrupulously, painstakingly.
narrowly Oxford Dictionary of English