essentially
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"It was an outhouse. There were brick walls but it was essentially a shed," he added.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
Clubs now offer teams from ages 5U—or 5 and under, essentially preschool—to 18.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
“There were a lot of guys that were essentially jumping off the ship.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
The new work builds on those findings by directly comparing RNA with single stranded DNA that contained essentially the same sequences.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
The trailer was a fifty-foot flatbed rigged for scrapping, essentially a giant bucket.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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