virtually
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When Thoreau set out for his first of his three chronicled trips to Cape Cod in 1849, he was a virtually unknown hanger-on to America’s foremost public intellectual, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Given that Gonez has virtually invisible opposition and Melvoin has his own donor base, “the level of outside spending seen in prior marquee races was simply not necessary,” McGinity said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
Whoever they sign, they will hope their recruitment is more successful than virtually all the players they have tried in Carrick's favoured position since he joined from Tottenham for £18.6m in July 2006.
From BBC • May 28, 2026
And at many schools, student activism is virtually nonexistent.
From Salon • May 28, 2026
If revolutionary credentials were the major criteria, Adams was virtually unbeatable.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing virtually
Elie Wiesel's "Hope, Despair and Memory" (1986)
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