essentially
Example Sentences
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“He had a powerful business partner, I believe, who died suddenly and left him everything: so he essentially inherited the city wholesale. Anja has a network of people who report to her,” said Irian.
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GDP by industry was essentially unchanged between October and November at 2.327 trillion Canadian dollars, the equivalent of US$1.725 trillion, Statistics Canada said.
It was Elon Musk’s gamble that a company could be built on a vehicle powered by what was commonly dismissed by rivals at the time as essentially laptop batteries.
He echoed his view in TV appearances, telling Bloomberg that bank lobbyists were “out there trying to ban their competition” and accusing banks of lending out their customers’ deposits “without their permission essentially.”
He also started diligently airbrushing or painting over photographs of the deceased: “I paint out all the abrasions, cuts and bruises, and open the eyes,” he explained, essentially resurrecting a likeness of the victim.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
