essentially
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People were essentially working together to fight this war.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
The covered-call strategy is essentially one that gives up some of the upside of the underlying index, in return for generating income by writing covered-call options.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
But because the payments are essentially one-off bailouts, the hospital can’t rely on those funds going forward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
"Everything they did just completely reversed what could have been a really horrible start to his life and he's just the best. He's a completely normal baby essentially."
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
We say that such Evidence-Indices is circumstantial evidence, where the legal understanding of ‘circumstantial’ essentially means ‘contextual’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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