basically

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Did Spielberg permanently convince you that aliens were basically on our side?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

"They are not and cannot be the problem. So, migrants are basically being scapegoated," Okey-Uche added.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

“When I’m working, I just don’t cook at all basically, and then when I get time off I like to putter around in the kitchen. I’m not very good, but I like to do it.”

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

"And it's basically a sea of ions, which is why we base our technology around it, so we can pull those ions out into an electrospray."

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

Figure 4.19: The interval patterns for major and natural minor scales are basically the same pattern starting at different points.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones