essentially

Example Sentences

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While other teams might import a player here and there, Illinois essentially functions as college basketball consulate for Eastern Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal

The commissioner is essentially telling players that their union has engaged in malpractice, losing touch with its own members while the economics of baseball changed around them.

From Los Angeles Times

In earlier experiments, the researchers studied young adults by suddenly destabilizing them, essentially pulling a rug out from under their feet.

From Science Daily

But it wasn't meant to end like this - with Salah essentially agreeing to cut short his contract and Liverpool letting him leave on a free this summer.

From BBC

It said the company did so through its recommendation algorithms, which are essentially tools that Meta uses to automatically curate the content a user sees on its platforms.

From BBC