as in mostly
for the most part
your answer is basically correct
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Recent Examples of basically
As so eloquently explained by Matt Damon (while eating hot wings), the loss of DVD support on the backend basically ended the midbudget movie.
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Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
25 June 2026
The cinnamon sugar option offers a pretty shade (basically my lips but better) plus a super yummy scent.
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Alyssa Grabinski,
PEOPLE,
24 June 2026
During the early days of the pandemic, when basically no one was traveling anywhere, the world ran out of room to store fuel that no one wanted, and oil was literally selling for negative dollars.
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David Goldman,
CNN Money,
24 June 2026
Teams such as the Nets and Bulls can add talent basically for free — and are incentivized to do so — while the expensive Wolves are trading a former All-Star to move down five picks in the draft.
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Sam Vecenie,
New York Times,
24 June 2026
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Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
25 June 2026
The cinnamon sugar option offers a pretty shade (basically my lips but better) plus a super yummy scent.
—
Alyssa Grabinski,
PEOPLE,
24 June 2026
During the early days of the pandemic, when basically no one was traveling anywhere, the world ran out of room to store fuel that no one wanted, and oil was literally selling for negative dollars.
—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
24 June 2026
Teams such as the Nets and Bulls can add talent basically for free — and are incentivized to do so — while the expensive Wolves are trading a former All-Star to move down five picks in the draft.
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Sam Vecenie,
New York Times,
24 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for basically
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The mostly White, progressive and relatively affluent district is among the most Jewish in the country.
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Mammalian scopes are mostly around 10 but go up to 20 for horses and just above 30 for canids.
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Seasonal increases in the virus are mainly driven by heat and warmer temperatures across the Midwest, which allow for a faster mosquito life cycle, and in return, viral life cycle.
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Lows will mainly be in the 60s, with some upper 50s north and west.
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Fundstrat said the higher target was driven primarily by improving earnings expectations rather than richer valuations.
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Where to watch the Special Olympics The Special Olympics are taking place in Minnesota, primarily in and around the Twin Cities, through June 26.
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The United States Geological Survey said that although more resistant buildings exist, the population in the affected region largely lives in structures that are vulnerable to earthquake shaking.
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That move largely spares local governments budgetary hits that nonpartisan legislative analysts pegged between $2 billion to $3 billion annually.
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But the accord already faces threats, chiefly from Lebanon, with the fighting there leading to the delay in the start of talks.
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The measure chiefly calls for the 5% income tax rate to be gradually stepped down to 4% over a three-year period, but the case hinged on other impacts of the proposal.
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Again, the demographics in the North End are predominantly Black.
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Swain scored 1,509 points over four years at Columbus Africentric Early College, a predominantly Black magnet school on the east side of Columbus, Ohio.
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While it is generally accepted as ‘sometime in September every year’, that’s a wide window for consumers and the competition to come to terms with.
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The agency said air monitoring conducted Wednesday evening found particulate matter levels were generally near background levels, although brief increases were detected within the smoke plume.
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Oppenheimer’s note was principally focused, fitting for a global strategist, on how equity returns will be reshaped in a new regime.
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The laser targeted one of three ground stations, principally NASA's White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Table Mountain Facility in California, with a third, experimental ground station at the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory.
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“Basically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/basically. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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