basically

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"At home, you're going to have agents. They're going to basically update everyone on your activity and your schedule -- all of the things that you need to do at work," he said.

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

"My knee was destroyed. The tendon basically had a hole in it," Nadal said.

From BBC • May 29, 2026

"Despite the fundamental questions that still need answers, this work basically provides a path toward a new type of physics mechanism."

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

“It was basically beach every day and hiking every other day,” Schulte said in an interview.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

“I now realized there was an entire industry, called consumer finance, that basically existed to rip people off.”

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis