basically

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"And it's basically a sea of ions, which is why we base our technology around it, so we can pull those ions out into an electrospray."

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

And that’s basically what has been happening over the past few weeks, he said.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026

Sagan has a gig that any sports nut would envy: He basically gets paid to watch games.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

The road "is basically the backbone of Russian occupation in the south", Clément Molin, an analyst at the French-based think tank Atum Mundi, told the BBC.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

Figure 4.19: The interval patterns for major and natural minor scales are basically the same pattern starting at different points.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones