as in essence
the central part or aspect of something under consideration
why don't we stop talking around it and get to the bottom line
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Recent Examples of bottom-line
Erin Jensen, USA Today, 27 June 2025
The bottom line is the Heat believes Ware is capable of doing a lot.
—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 26 June 2025
The bottom line is, these regulations are going to cause the price of gasoline to increase.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
The bottom line is, your career doesn’t have to start with a cramped apartment, a brutal commute, and ramen noodles for dinner.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 25 June 2025
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Adjective
The bottom line is Chef Carmy doesn’t love the craft anymore, and his drive has been brûléed.
—Erin Jensen, USA Today, 27 June 2025
The bottom line is the Heat believes Ware is capable of doing a lot.
—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 26 June 2025
The bottom line is, these regulations are going to cause the price of gasoline to increase.
—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
The bottom line is, your career doesn’t have to start with a cramped apartment, a brutal commute, and ramen noodles for dinner.
—Kimberly Wilson, Essence, 25 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bottom-line
Noun
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These teachings, Tolstoy believed, formed the true essence of Christianity, which had been distorted by the church in order to protect its own interests.—
Ben Woollard,
JSTOR Daily,
18 June 2025
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In essence, all this accomplishes is to enable some devious shopkeepers to charge their fellow Jews even more money in these challenging times for adhering to dietary laws.—
Michael Isaacson,
Sun Sentinel,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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In an interview with People about the move, Bateman said twice that most people listen to podcasts on phones, and therefore the telecom industry is a logical one for podcasters to enter.—
Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
18 June 2025
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Rudy Gobert is a logical salary to go the other way to Phoenix in a Durant trade.—
Jace Frederick,
Twin Cities,
18 June 2025
Noun
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The roots of the Phlegms begin with McKitrick, who grew up in Houston, Texas, and Williams, who is from Little Rock.—
Sean Clancy,
Arkansas Online,
26 June 2025
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Wang’s team compared the highly active genes in both rabbits and mice after injury and traced the roots of this difference to a gene called Aldh1a2, which was strongly activated in rabbits and remained inactive in mice.—
Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
26 June 2025
Adjective
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President Donald Trump’s court challenge failed during his first term because his administration did not provide the U.S. Supreme Court with a rational government basis for terminating the program.—
Darren Soto,
The Orlando Sentinel,
22 June 2025
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This research carries on not because anyone is doing a rational weighing of its costs and benefits, but because in the eyes of the law and of biomedical science, animals are morally invisible and thoroughly disposable.—
Marina Bolotnikova,
Vox,
18 June 2025
Noun
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Despite Benfica’s determination to preserve the core of a potentially special team, Fernandez returned to Portugal with Chelsea hot in pursuit.—
Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
28 June 2025
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History is also at the core of the third installation, which may be my favorite.—
Sal Pizarro,
Mercury News,
28 June 2025
Adjective
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Matchmaking has granted Lucy a coolly pragmatic, unsentimental view of love.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
9 June 2025
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This is graceful, quietly intelligent filmmaking—including a touch of unsentimental magic realism involving a wise and beautiful Norwegian Forest Cat.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
23 May 2025
Noun
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Roth went right for Rubin’s heart, invoking the Paul Skenes Topps MLB Debut Patch autographed one-of-one card that famously sold for $1.11 million to Dick’s Sporting Goods in March.—
Larry Holder,
New York Times,
22 June 2025
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Rather than solely leaning on designing for moneyed families and those with means to drop thousands on new pieces each season, the designer opts to create from his heart.—
Robyn Mowatt,
Essence,
22 June 2025
Adjective
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Darcy goes running after Elizabeth in the rain…and then proposes to her in quite a clumsy and unromantic way?—
Marley Marius,
Vogue,
25 Mar. 2025
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Unforgiven recasts the genre as a pitiless, almost pathologically unromantic realm populated by twits hoping to make their name and aged gunslingers who have to make peace with their bad pasts.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Bottom-line.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bottom-line. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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