as in mainly
for the most part
the weather this month has been mostly mild
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Set mostly in high-society Dallas – at the nexus of oil money, politics, religion, and crime – solving his beloved brother’s murder will take Jordan back to the streets, back across the border, back to an old alter-ego everyone, including him, had thought had been dead and buried.
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Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2025
But there the substantial and significant good news mostly ends.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
It was mostly made up of $20 bills and did not appear to be enough to pay his tab.
—Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Both performances mostly flew under the radar, except among his biggest fans.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2025
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Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2025
But there the substantial and significant good news mostly ends.
—Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
It was mostly made up of $20 bills and did not appear to be enough to pay his tab.
—Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Both performances mostly flew under the radar, except among his biggest fans.
—Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2025
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To make matters worse, Facundo Buonanotte, signed from Brighton on loan mainly to provide cover for Palmer, was not in the matchday squad.—
Simon Johnson,
New York Times,
22 Sep. 2025
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The legislation mainly added work requirements, which are expected to reduce participation in the programs.—
Zach LaChance,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Sep. 2025
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Listeria monocytogenes, or Lm, is a bacterium that causes listeriosis, a serious infection that primarily affects older adults, individuals with weakened immune systems, pregnant women and their newborns.—
Amaris Encinas,
USA Today,
26 Sep. 2025
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However, the project’s current strengths are primarily systems integration and ambition.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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Max & Helen’s is chiefly inspired by Maine’s Palace Diner, which is widely noted for its elevation of comfort-food staples.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Sep. 2025
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This evolved into a prototype chiefly engineered by Burrell Smith, selecting for its CPU the 8-bit Motorola 6809 as an upgrade from the Apple II's MOS 6502 but still keeping costs low.—
Cameron Kaiser,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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However, accessibility largely depends on policy, and tuition typically ranges from $5,000 to $10,000 a year.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
28 Sep. 2025
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It’s largely set on the gloomy campus of Stoneridge College, and brings Moreno-Garcia’s signature horror skills to the dark academia genre.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
27 Sep. 2025
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In 1977, a neo-Nazi group called the National Socialist Party of America applied for a permit to march through Skokie, Illinois, a predominantly Jewish, Chicago suburb.—
Scott Simon,
NPR,
27 Sep. 2025
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The blue jay/green jay hybrid, a male offspring of a green jay mother and a blue jay father, has predominantly blue feathers, but exhibits black coloring on its face, similar to that of a green jay.—
Moná Thomas,
PEOPLE,
26 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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However, surging production, led principally by Chinese mining companies, had cratered the price to a nine-year low, leading the DRC to impose the restrictions and in turn drawing ire from producers.—
Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
23 Sep. 2025
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By drawing his understanding of the king principally from Harvey’s travelogue, and likely a string of others produced in the English-speaking world, Welles ended up making his career promoting what was merely another caricature of an actual person, a historical figure, and an important one at that.—
Marlene L. Daut
September 22,
Literary Hub,
22 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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So all movies were basically, that was the audience.—
H. Alan Scott,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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Fear of mistakes have pushed firms to restrict use of open-source models and instead develop in-house applications, which are basically a server in the firm where attorneys upload their contracts and documents and start training an AI model on them, Emmert said.—
Nino Paoli,
Fortune,
24 Sep. 2025
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The traffic itself generally keeps moving rather than fully stopping.—
Eric D. Lawrence,
USA Today,
28 Sep. 2025
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To qualify, the applicant must generally hold a bachelor’s degree or higher and perform a job that requires specialized knowledge.—
Syra Ortiz Blanes,
Miami Herald,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Mostly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mostly. Accessed 28 Sep. 2025.
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