as in mostly
for the most part
your answer is basically correct
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Recent Examples of basically
My Supercharged experience was enhanced by the lack of wait, basically a walk-on.
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Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2026
So by that math, the last 16 years have basically been overtime for me.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
Troma was a big North Star for our style, basically.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026
Pat Murphy has won NL Manager of the Year in back-to-back seasons, which basically means that the small market Brewers have been the biggest surprise in the league each of the last two years.
—D.j. Short, NBC news, 25 Mar. 2026
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Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2026
So by that math, the last 16 years have basically been overtime for me.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
Troma was a big North Star for our style, basically.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 25 Mar. 2026
Pat Murphy has won NL Manager of the Year in back-to-back seasons, which basically means that the small market Brewers have been the biggest surprise in the league each of the last two years.
—D.j. Short, NBC news, 25 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for basically
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The new adaptation has to figure out how to update the screenplay to avoid the mostly exploitational way such relationships were treated in the dramas of the 1970s.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
31 Mar. 2026
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Unlike the sugarcane-ethanol success story, Brazil’s biodiesel, which is mostly made from soybeans, only makes up 14% of the diesel blend.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
31 Mar. 2026
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By 2005, the publication—which got little advertising revenue and survived mainly on subscriptions, events, and merchandise sales—was the country’s highest-circulation magazine.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
27 Mar. 2026
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Prior work has explored ultrasound sensing mainly on ground robots, but applying it to aerial robots has been difficult due to propeller noise and weak signals.—
Nitin Sanket,
The Conversation,
27 Mar. 2026
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Evans and Rochell were re-signed to primarily serve as special teams cogs.—
Mike Kaye
March 26,
Charlotte Observer,
26 Mar. 2026
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And city residents question whether the strategy will produce lasting gains or primarily serve short-term political goals.—
Cleve R. Wootson Jr. The Washington Post,
Arkansas Online,
25 Mar. 2026
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Where Farhadi concentrates on the script and the actors via images that are largely transparent and neutral, Haghighi truly thinks with the camera.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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But Young’s order reveals the scope of the deportation operation, which both governments have kept largely quiet.—
Syra Ortiz Blanes,
Miami Herald,
27 Mar. 2026
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Congress last July ordered cuts to Medicaid and other programs worth more than $1 trillion by 2034 to help finance big federal tax cuts aimed chiefly at high-earning households.—
Laura Tillman,
Hartford Courant,
25 Mar. 2026
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But the maneuver comes with limitations, chiefly that the bill's components must have a direct impact on the budget.—
Kaia Hubbard,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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Clipping has been streamlined predominantly on Whop, a platform that launched in 2021 as a software marketplace and quickly evolved into a central clipping hub.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
26 Mar. 2026
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Kratom is a plant native to Southeast Asia and is predominantly used to control chronic pain.—
Josh Kelly,
Oklahoman,
26 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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The Pentagon has generally lumped it into the first objective of destroying Iran’s missile capability.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
28 Mar. 2026
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Rainfall will generally be light, with only a few tenths of an inch possible in parts of California, including San Francisco.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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To ramp up solar power even faster than Cuba did last year, LeoGrande said other countries, principally China, would have to be willing to double or more their provision of such equipment.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Mar. 2026
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Rising electricity prices are being driven principally by rising prices for fossil fuels, especially natural gas.—
Liz Krueger,
New York Daily News,
12 Mar. 2026
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“Basically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/basically. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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