basically
Example Sentences
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Gentile, she added, “basically pulled a Bernie Madoff and swindled people out of their money, and then he gets to go home to his wife and kids.”
From Los Angeles Times
"There's basically no way that this companion is not somehow connected to that dust production," said Steward Observatory Associate Astronomer Steve Ertel, a co-author of the study.
From Science Daily
"I got approached with this project in 2018. So that basically gave me six, seven years to prepare on and off. In all my downtime, I would train as much as possible," he enthuses.
From BBC
"The sports bar is gone, basically. It's washed away. It needs a full rebuild."
From BBC
"The aeration then created a huge amount of foam, which basically went from the pond basically up into the air," he said.
From BBC
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