essentially
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With a depleted pitching staff needing him, with the Dodgers’ teetering hopes balanced on him, Sasaki came through with three perfect innings to essentially win the clinching Game 4.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
By design, even by necessity, Jeremy remains essentially unknown to us.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
And so Luna and Leger Fernández essentially brokered that compromise.
From Slate • Apr. 16, 2026
"It was also believed that leakage from these sources was minor, around half a percent of what went in, because people would essentially be leaking their profits if their feedstocks were released into the atmosphere."
From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2026
“Bob and I believe that the worst course of action is to continue in this essentially passive role which can lead only to eventual defeat and an invitation to get out in humiliating circumstances.”
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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