essentially
Example Sentences
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“What’s especially threatening about this is that our state’s tax structure is essentially a house of cards,” Kiley said.
From Los Angeles Times
Many big banks stopped focusing on mortgages after the 2008 financial crisis, because new rules essentially required them to set aside more money to cover potential losses from mortgages.
Prosecutor Ian Hope said O'Sullivan "essentially ploughed straight into the back of the stationary Nissan, with there being no apparent avoiding action to the naked eye."
From BBC
Past and present form essentially two discrete stories, different in tone, dialogue, camerawork and acting styles; they might belong to two entirely different series.
From Los Angeles Times
"It's essentially like doing a CT scan of the plasma beneath the aurora," Lynch said.
From Science Daily
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