Barely
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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The colonies were all just barely self-sufficient enough to survive being cut off from Earth, and banded together to place defenses around the planet to keep away all the strangeness they can faintly see going on down there.
Source: But What About the Astronauts?
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