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by and large

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“These people by and large did not know anything about how to do the trade and expected Goldman to help them replicate it,” Burry wrote in an e-mail to his CFO.

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But modern technology, by and large, hasn’t helped.

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But by and large, after those months in the public eye, Gisèle was able to regain the privacy she had been denied for so long.

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But by and large, I got to do a lot of what I wanted to do.

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But by and large, if you made even a cursory effort at keeping up with TV this year, you’ll know the winners already.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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