substantially
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As fires have declined, the rate of annual deaths from landscape-fire air pollution has fallen substantially since 2000, according to a 2024 Lancet study.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Water oxidation, an essential reaction during electrolysis, requires a substantially higher potential of about ~1600 mV.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
His numbers would be substantially higher if he were batting either third or fourth because he’d have runners on base.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
During the trial, the court heard the "extraordinary" fact that a window panel had already fallen from the same development in August 2017, and the design was not substantially changed as a result.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
If we drop the uranium ore into a heavy lead canister, the count rate declines substantially; the lead has absorbed the uranium radiation.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Vocabulary lists containing substantially
John F. Kennedy's Address to the American People on the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
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Lee Surrenders to Grant (1865)
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