Barely
Right now
Right now adverb - At the present time.
Both terms in one sentence
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But, the Mitsuzane Kureshima you see right now is a very insecure and isolated man, who can barely make fun of other people just to see the world becoming so relentlessly unkind.
Source: Dark and Troubled Past -
Now I found a low-cost flight site, but right now it's full, and there's nothing else that— hold on a second, I really have bad reception, I can barely hear ya.
Source: Web Video / Joueur du Grenier - House bounced between functional, barely functional, and "holy-crap-I-need-my-Vicodin-right now." In fact, when they first got House to admit that he was addicted to Vicodin, he refused to admit that this was a problem, since, he argued, he functioned just fine.
Source: Functional Addict
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