largely

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The Fourth Amendment exists largely because governments predictably exploit opportunities to search broadly whenever those searches become easy.

From Slate • May 20, 2026

These include banks "whose balance sheets are largely based on public debt", bringing a risk of instability in the banking system, he added.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

One of the biggest drivers in their early days was the huge amount of traffic coming from social media, largely Facebook and Twitter.

From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026

The mariners’ story—headline news at the time but largely forgotten since—is resuscitated in Eric Jay Dolin’s “The Wreck of the Mentor.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

He was cared for by a group of Jansenists, Catholics who belonged to a sect based largely on a hatred of the Jesuit order.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife