basically

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“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

I wish that we could say, “I’d like to try this now,” but it’s basically where they believe they would like us.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

The day’s economic news was basically good, after all—a strong jobs report.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Was it possible to crush on someone you’d never met and knew basically nothing about?

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows