essentially
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"If you're suddenly in an environment where you're essentially getting killed a couple of times per year, then that changes everything," said Mitchell.
From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026
The official statistics are essentially the number of people sleeping or about to bed down in the open air or in buildings not designated for habitation, such as car parks, on a single night.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
Their most severe scenario was the current Hormuz reality, whereby the strait, the former conduit of about a fifth of the world’s crude and crude products, essentially closed.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
Musk’s plan is essentially to scale SpaceX AI compute by 100 times.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
We don’t have to worry about mixing up the value of the number—its cardinality—with the order in which it arrives—its ordinality—since they are essentially the same thing.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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