essentially
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"I can understand people feel reluctant to wanting to essentially get into more debt. I understand that and it's hard at the moment."
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
“These large language models — the AI, the chatbots, Claude, AI, ChatGPT — they’re all built on essentially reflecting ourselves back to each other,” Stangl said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
With every language-services company using its own accuracy measures, everyone essentially grades their own homework, using their own rules.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
In other words, black holes separated by enormous differences in mass appear to activate delayed jets at essentially the same relative feeding rate.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
It was one of the fringe benefits of living for so many years essentially alienated from the world around him: He could easily believe that he was right and the world was wrong.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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