not particularly
idiom
: only a little : not very or not very much
He is not particularly good at math.
"Did you like the movie?" "No, not particularly."
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Clarke will play Beau Maxwell, Briar’s star quarterback on their not particularly successful football team who has been best friends since high school with one of Blair’s hockey stars, Dean Di Laurentis (Stephen Kalyn).
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Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 25 July 2025
An ever-present and not particularly welcome sense of your limitations as a player?
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 22 July 2025
The inheritor of a real estate firm who launched and crashed multiple businesses and before playing a successful businessman as a character on TV is unsurprisingly not particularly prepared for the extraordinarily high stakes of running the globe’s preeminent superpower.
—New York Daily News, Twin Cities, 22 July 2025
Similarly, the winning formula behind Mamdani’s campaign – savvy use of social media – is not particularly hard for other progressive candidates to replicate.
—Douglas Schoen, Oc Register, 13 July 2025
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Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 25 July 2025
An ever-present and not particularly welcome sense of your limitations as a player?
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 22 July 2025
The inheritor of a real estate firm who launched and crashed multiple businesses and before playing a successful businessman as a character on TV is unsurprisingly not particularly prepared for the extraordinarily high stakes of running the globe’s preeminent superpower.
—New York Daily News, Twin Cities, 22 July 2025
Similarly, the winning formula behind Mamdani’s campaign – savvy use of social media – is not particularly hard for other progressive candidates to replicate.
—Douglas Schoen, Oc Register, 13 July 2025
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“Not particularly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/not%20particularly. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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