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substantially

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


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“The work of defending the world’s cyber infrastructure might take years; frontier AI capabilities are likely to advance substantially over just the next few months,” Anthropic says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

“We have known for decades that once you have one disc surgery, the chances of having another are substantially higher, especially if you use the fusion technique like Tiger. It’s a domino effect.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

It substantially narrowed the list of nominated ingredients, quickly reviewed each remaining substance and placed them into three categories.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

This suggests the stocks have already reflected most of the higher crude price and would need a much larger gain in oil from here to go substantially higher.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

The underlying problem was that Boukreev’s notion of his responsibilities differed substantially from Fischer’s.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer