Degree adverbs (slightly) and focusing adverbs (generally)
Degree and focusing adverbs are the most common types of modifiers of adjectives and other adverbs. Degree adverbs express degrees of qualities, properties, states, conditions and relations. Focusing adverbs point to something. …

slightly | American Dictionary

slightly
adverb
us/ˈslɑɪt·li/
in a small amount or degree:
She’s slightly taller than her sister.

Examples of slightly

slightly
Probabilities that are identical or only have slightly significant differences appear unmarked.
Their current estimate was that the mass of the neutron should be increased slightly to 1.001 amu.
The mean age was slightly higher in 2002, particularly among women.
In some cases, it seems that the source was radically summarised, and in others, only slightly paraphrased.
Slightly over two-thirds left before two years had elapsed.
The term internalization is but a slightly disguised synonym of ingestion.
Perhaps the peak sensitivity of my long-wave cones is slightly displaced from that of yours.
A considerable decline in the effect was observed when the same object was slightly translated in the visual field.
The slightly lower estimates that are often obtained could result from the inability to learn the chunks quickly enough.
To put it in slightly different terms: p-dreams, despite being experiences, have no interesting biological function.
There it took on a slightly different meaning.
In fact, since languages are continually changing, a node only represents changes occurring just prior to that point, during that time, or slightly after it.
The abdomen of the female was held straight out, with the ovipositor slightly raised.
There is a high positive correlation between fly and the temperature of the same week, slightly lower for the previous week's temperature.
In the early summer the minimum temperature is slightly lower in the wady than, on the goz and the maximum is higher.
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