basically

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On Saturday night in a heavyweight world title fight, I am basically in both corners.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

“I think they’re basically taking the position that there’s smoke, there’s fire,” Briffault said.

From Slate • May 8, 2026

Goldman Sachs has a basket of what it calls high-beta momentum stocks, basically winners and losers over the last year, with an extra weighting on the outliers over the last month.

From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026

“The rise in gas prices is basically free advertisement for EV adoption.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

Figure 4.19: The interval patterns for major and natural minor scales are basically the same pattern starting at different points.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones