essentially
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Governments and coporations sell bonds - essentially an IOU - to raise money for spending and in return they pay interest.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
“That led us to create this vertical concept, which takes the core ingredients that we believe make our single-family model special, and we have essentially urbanized that in a vertical format,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
That conclusion conflicted with the prevailing view at the time, which held that the universe was static and had remained essentially the same throughout cosmic history.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
And that was essentially a bat signal for scholars and historians to try to come up with those reasons and feed them to the court.
From Slate ● Aug. 16, 2026
The publication of De Revolutionibus was accepted essentially without a murmur by the Catholic Church, and the book was largely ignored by Rome for the rest of the sixteenth century.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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