essentially
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What I receive most years are socks that say “#1 Dad,” last-minute arts and crafts, and the occasional grill gadget—a catalog essentially unchanged since 1965.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 17, 2026
This reflects more cautious financial behavior, because loans are repaid to the borrower’s retirement account, with the interest they pay to themselves, essentially.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 16, 2026
In the three major biggest nuclear countries, the United States, Russia and China, the people involved with those nuclear forces know that a purposeful attack is essentially suicidal.
From Salon • Jun. 15, 2026
"If this standard was applied across the industry, we believe it would essentially halt all new model deployments for all frontier model providers."
From Barron's • Jun. 13, 2026
I’d essentially be proofreading—checking for errors and making suggestions about work that had already been done on behalf of “our team.”
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
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