in essence
Example Sentences
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“For me, human rights in essence is about human agency,” Roth said in an interview.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 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
Instead, they wrote what was in essence a series of dueling law-review articles on the major-questions doctrine.
From Slate • 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
These two men said in essence: “Let everyone in the community pool what little resources he has with others.”
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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