essentially
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Essentially a massive skillet, a good griddle can just as easily turn out pancakes for breakfast, paninis for lunch, or, yes, chicken thighs for dinner.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026
Essentially, they’re less risky than the market—and far less risky than chip stocks.
From Barron's • Jun. 16, 2026
Essentially, Green Dot looks at the results of state tests for 8th graders; these tests indicate the academic level of students just before they enter Locke.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2026
Essentially, such an economy would entail getting people and cargo to the moon and Mars, something that would need to be a regular occurrence for a true economy to develop around it.
From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026
Essentially the same line of reasoning tells us that the nearly 200 million Bantu people, now flung over much of the map of Africa, arose from Cameroon and Nigeria.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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