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
Kelsey Monstrola, USA Today, 28 May 2026
More powerful than lightsabers in regards to the bottom lines, Mando and Baby Yoda will hold onto Imax screens in their second and third frames.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 27 May 2026
Clifford Hudson, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
Top- and bottom-line results in the third quarter also beat the Street.
—Davis Giangiulio,lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 1 May 2026
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Noun
The bottom line At its heart, end-of-life preplanning is about love, not logistics.
—Kelsey Monstrola, USA Today, 28 May 2026
More powerful than lightsabers in regards to the bottom lines, Mando and Baby Yoda will hold onto Imax screens in their second and third frames.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 27 May 2026
Adjective
Craig Miller, industry strategist and former Sonic CIO, has more than four decades specializing in the development and execution of bold business strategies that harness the power of emerging-tech, data, and artificial-intelligence to drive top-line growth and bottom-line efficiencies.
—Clifford Hudson, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
Top- and bottom-line results in the third quarter also beat the Street.
—Davis Giangiulio,lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 1 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bottom line
Noun
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Capturing that essence is a VIP area that sits at the heart of the new emporium.—
Ming Liu,
Robb Report,
24 May 2026
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Martin Filler The Met’s new Tristan und Isolde was a vocal triumph for Lise Davidsen and Michael Spyres, but Yuval Sharon’s staging only fitfully captured the essence of Wagner’s masterpiece.—
The New York Review of Books,
The New York Review of Books,
23 May 2026
Adjective
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Intelligence cannot be reduced to analytical logic alone because intelligence itself is not singularly logical.—
Hamilton Mann,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
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As befits a logical proof, Gödel’s argumentation was very abstract and high-level.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
26 May 2026
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Maintain an even supply of moisture to reduce stress on the plant, and water at the roots with a drip hose instead of overhead watering to avoid spreading disease.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
29 May 2026
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According to legend, the pithiviers has its roots in the first century, when Gauls combined local flour with almonds brought by Roman traders.—
Jen Rose Smith,
CNN Money,
28 May 2026
Adjective
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For most of investing history, that discomfort was rational.—
Ethan Stone,
USA Today,
29 May 2026
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For all the prior cinematic depictions of storming bunkers and camaraderie under fire, Pressure offers us the quiet heroism of rational restraint in the figure of James Stagg, who weathered his inner storms and bore the courage to be disliked.—
Daniel Jonah Wolpert,
NPR,
29 May 2026
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My heart breaks for the families of these young people.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
26 May 2026
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Cranberries are known to fight bacteria and protect against urinary tract infections (UTIs), while blueberries are rich in antioxidants and support overall brain and heart health.—
Julie Marks,
Verywell Health,
25 May 2026
Adjective
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The Nobel-prize-winning novelist Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) go on an unsentimental journey in 1949 through West and East Germany in Pawel Pawlikowski’s damn-near perfect period piece Fatherland.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
14 May 2026
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The film’s empathetic interest in individual, often eccentric human lives gives it a warmth that overrides the underlying melancholy of the material, making for a pleasingly unsentimental crowdpleaser.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2026
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And his age fits perfectly with the Sabres’ core.—
Matthew Fairburn,
New York Times,
28 May 2026
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At its core, KYA focuses on making sure there’s a verified bond between an AI agent and a real human user.—
Andrew Sever,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
Adjective
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This idea was supposed to be the kind of thing that could convince even the most unromantic skeptics that space exploration was not only spiritually fulfilling, but economically advantageous.—
Elena Saavedra Buckley,
Harpers Magazine,
21 Apr. 2026
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The logical, unromantic version of their history is that in the 17th century Chincoteague farmers moved their livestock to neighboring Assateague Island to roam freely and avoid fencing their land, as well as skirting various taxation laws.—
Madeline Weinfield,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Apr. 2026
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