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
Dimitar Dimitrov, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Trump himself has learned some of that same bottom-line pragmatism where the party is concerned.
—Bill Barrow, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2025
Michael Silver, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2025
Citing Netflix's decision to continue to work with Dave Chappelle, 52, despite the comedian's anti-trans jokes , Maron said the streamer was only dutiful to its bottom line.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
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Noun
However, successfully shifting AI initiatives from intriguing pilots into measurable, bottom-line-driving assets remains a challenge.
—Dimitar Dimitrov, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Trump himself has learned some of that same bottom-line pragmatism where the party is concerned.
—Bill Barrow, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2025
Adjective
The bottom line is this: The Gambler just got rid of one of the league’s best players, a young man seemingly entering the prime of his career, because of the owner’s own flaws: stubbornness, a lack of urgency, and miscalculations of his adversaries and of the market.
—Michael Silver, New York Times, 29 Aug. 2025
Citing Netflix's decision to continue to work with Dave Chappelle, 52, despite the comedian's anti-trans jokes , Maron said the streamer was only dutiful to its bottom line.
—Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bottom-line
Noun
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These metres break you down to your essence.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
6 Sep. 2025
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The bad news is that time is of the essence.—
Daniel Klein,
Mercury News,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Searching for a logical progression from The Office and like-minded comedies, so far The Paper has come up with a strange, often funny hybrid, with characters experiencing Parks and Rec idealism and Office-style fluorescent-light tedium simultaneously and sometimes incoherently.—
Jesse Hassenger,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
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Without a body to put to rest, even when there is no other logical conclusion than death, people can imagine and cling to the most improbable of alternatives.—
Bjorn Dihle,
Outdoor Life,
4 Sep. 2025
Noun
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For example, most types of turfgrass have short roots, and soil samples from lawns only need to be dug to a depth of 4 inches.—
Lauren Landers,
Better Homes & Gardens,
7 Sep. 2025
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The roots of my family tree are firmly established in the soil of Great Britain.—
Elizabeth Bass Parman,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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So there is no logic or any rational decisions made.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
7 Sep. 2025
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The appellate court had held that the INS could not rely on these immigration sweeps but, rather, needed to articulate objective facts and rational inferences to support a reasonable suspicion that each person detained is undocumented.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Understanding these dynamics is a key piece in the puzzle of planet formation, as dust settles into larger layers including pebbles and rocks, and eventually planetary cores.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Google is suffering outages in multiple countries, with core services such as Gmail and YouTube experiencing issues, the tracking website DownDetector reported.—
Robert Birsel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Manfred may have goofy-looking curly blonde hair, but Mikkelsen portrays him as strong-willed and devoted to his brother, with a dignified stiffness that is both poignant and unsentimental.—
Caryn James,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Aug. 2025
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But that’s no reason to discount nor dismiss his unsentimental directorial debut, an authentic and brutal experience illustrating the battles warring inside the head of a troubled guy just released from prison after serving 153 days.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
30 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Kahan, known for his raw anthems, offers more insight into the inner workings of his heart in his lyrics than in public comments.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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This isn’t the first study to suggest the importance of breakfast for living a long life—research has shown that regularly eating a morning meal is linked with lower overall and heart-related mortality (and that bypassing it can up your heart-disease risk).—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
4 Sep. 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 9 Sep. 2025.
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