in essence
Example Sentences
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This week the island's energy minister acknowledged that Cuba has, in essence, run out of fuel oil.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
UTLA: The district has offered, in essence, an 8% raise over two years, structured in different ways.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026
Nvidia has been paying a success tax, in essence.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026
“This is in essence a scarlet-letter designation for Anthropic that puts this AI stalwart in the same category as the Chinese tech player Huawei in the U.S.,”
From MarketWatch • Mar. 1, 2026
They take the view that science is, in essence, common sense applied systematically, or, as Karl Popper put it, ‘common-sense knowledge writ large, as it were’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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