virtually

[vur-choo-uh-lee] / ˈvɜr tʃu ə li /

ADVERB

for all practical purposes

Synonyms

STRONGEST

basically essentially nearly practically

WEAK

around as good as effectually for all intents and purposes fundamentally give or take a little guesstimate implicitly in all but name in effect in essence in substance in the ballpark in the neighborhood morally not absolutely not actually something like upwards of

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By week five, he says, he was "virtually pain-free" and able to do things he had not been able to do for "quite some time".

From BBC

Emma Little-Pengelly virtually attended a briefing with senior UK government security advisers about the situation in the Middle East, alongside the first ministers of Scotland and Wales.

From BBC

At this point, there is virtually no doubt that baseball’s team owners are going to lock out the players after this year’s World Series.

From The Wall Street Journal

“The contract language we received overnight from the Department of War made virtually no progress on preventing Claude’s use for mass surveillance of Americans or in fully autonomous weapons,” an Anthropic spokesman said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Lesh takes a longer view, pointing out that virtually every advance in transport technology has come with controversy.

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