largely

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Retailers have long struggled to make traditional product listings accurate, in part because they largely outsource the task to their suppliers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

This fiscal year the company will spend more than $100 billion on capital expenditures, largely on data centers to support the technology.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Joel Negin, a professor of public health at the University of Sydney, said Australia's measures in 1996 largely worked because they were part of a broad suite of measures implemented "very quickly" after the massacre.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Martin Grace, a University of Iowa business professor and expert on insurance regulation, said that aside from the “bully pulpit” Trump exercised in his social media post, the federal government’s hands are largely tied.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Christopher was conscious of his jeans—but largely it was Nighthand’s size and musculature which attracted looks from both men and women, and his strategy for moving through crowds.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell