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substantially

[suhb-stan-shuh-lee] / səbˈstæn ʃə li /


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The fee then will fall as a percentage of assets but the dollar amount will likely rise substantially.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Whether home prices will fall substantially — or even crash — is unclear.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

With final figures in, the report notes that the state’s economy grew at a 3.7% rate in the first quarter, substantially higher than the 2.1% rate of the overall U.S. economy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

The team found that the processor could also become more capable by increasing the physical depth of its passive optical decoder without substantially increasing energy use or inference latency.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

The Tunguska Event seems to have been caused by a chunk of Comet Encke, a piece substantially larger than the tiny fragments that cause those glittering, harmless meteor showers.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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