basically

Example Sentences

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"It's basically a shortcut," explains Adrian Bayer a cosmologist at the Flatiron Institute and Princeton University, co-author of the study.

From Science Daily • 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

And that’s basically what has been happening over the past few weeks, he said.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Everyone concerned apparently assumed they were being paid insurance premiums to take basically the same sort of risk they had been taking for nearly a decade.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis