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heavily

adverb as in laboriously

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Not an ace by the heavily diluted standards of 2025, a time when crossing 110 pitches is an unreasonable workload and a six-inning outing is considered “dominant.”

Like others in the genre, ReelShort and DramaShorts rely heavily on data metrics like customer retention and paid subscribers to make their content decisions.

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India runs a significant trade deficit with Beijing, relying heavily on Chinese raw materials for industrial and export growth.

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It remains heavily reliant on oil, with little diversification into other sectors, and some concerns remain over its ability to participate meaningfully in ASEAN's development agenda.

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South East Asia may be the most trapped – it is deeply woven into US supply chains in electronics, for example, yet heavily reliant on Chinese demand.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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