basically

Example Sentences

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"No phone takes that long to charge, so you're basically deciding that you're going to charge it three or four times longer than it needs."

From BBC

The team that is top of the Premier League on Christmas Day has gone on to win the title in 17 of the previous 33 seasons – basically a flip of a chocolate coin.

From BBC

“If Venezuela is going to grow as we think it is going to, it’s going to be basically because of massive private investment,” de la Cruz said.

From The Wall Street Journal

“They basically turned him back out on the streets,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal

But here he was basically repeating a mistake he made only two days earlier, which can’t be what any team wants from its most popular player.

From Los Angeles Times