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[uh-sen-shuh-lee] / əˈsɛn ʃə li /


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That difference tells us how much mid-infrared light comes from the planet itself, which essentially tells us how hot the planet is.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

“I essentially wrote, cast, directed, produced, got a crew together ...,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

“He essentially said we had to do it,” said Bob Iger, Disney’s former CEO who remains on the board.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

But we question why the parents must move to a high-cost area and surrender essentially all of their assets to finance a property that the older brother insists on owning and controlling.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

The publication of De Revolutionibus was accepted essentially without a murmur by the Catholic Church, and the book was largely ignored by Rome for the rest of the sixteenth century.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin




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