virtually
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center said Thursday that there is virtually a 100% chance that the El Niño this season will be categorized as “very strong.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
"The kids will have virtually nothing on their backs, just maybe a really small backpack to get on the plane," said Tom.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
That 1960 pact is often accused of rendering US military bases virtually extraterritorial and immune to Japan's domestic laws.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026
Many recent North Korean defectors arriving in the South had already been living outside the country for years, as tight border controls virtually halted direct escapes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
No other animal had ever moved into such a huge variety of radically different habitats so quickly, everywhere using virtually the same genes.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
Vocabulary lists containing virtually
Elie Wiesel's "Hope, Despair and Memory" (1986)
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The Wishing Spell
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