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obsolete
: in a forceful manner
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: for the most part : chiefly
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you mainly need to focus on improving your golf swing
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However, only a few metals—mainly platinum—can perform efficiently in such environments without breaking down.
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Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 26 Mar. 2026
The new deductions mainly benefit seniors, business owners and tipped employees.
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Already, Greece, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, and Denmark have entered into negotiations with governments mainly in Africa to host sites to hold migrants denied asylum.
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And still, there isn’t enough compute to go around, as evidenced by OpenAI’s decision to shut down video generation tool Sora Tuesday, mainly to free up compute resources.
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Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 26 Mar. 2026
The new deductions mainly benefit seniors, business owners and tipped employees.
—Kat Tretina, Sacbee.com, 26 Mar. 2026
Already, Greece, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, and Denmark have entered into negotiations with governments mainly in Africa to host sites to hold migrants denied asylum.
—Sam McNeil, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
And still, there isn’t enough compute to go around, as evidenced by OpenAI’s decision to shut down video generation tool Sora Tuesday, mainly to free up compute resources.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 25 Mar. 2026
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“Mainly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mainly. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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