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The phrase "hardly help" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to indicate that something is unlikely to provide assistance or support.
Example: "The new software update will hardly help with the existing issues we are facing."
Alternatives: "barely assist" or "scarcely aid".
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They can hardly help it.
"You can hardly help him.
Opaque sweetheart deals for blacklisted cronies hardly help.
That will hardly help them command the global stage.
Voters' insecurity about work can hardly help an incumbent.
But it sows confusion, and will hardly help tackle the causes of Europe's financial woes.
Infuriating the French over GM food will hardly help CAP reform.
But that would hardly help to develop Germany's struggling capital markets.
Nonetheless, these measurements hardly help researchers distinguish unique features of dominant noise at different types of land use.
This will hardly help push Congress to craft meaningful legislation to address the problem.
Here and elsewhere conductor Pietari Inkinen's slow tempi and calculated detachment hardly help matters either.
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