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
Jack Albright, jsonline.com, 9 Aug. 2025
All in all, the bottom line is that AI is predicted to gut the need for human therapists.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
The bottom line is the one-race format hasn’t felt credible enough as a championship, and the playoff committee members are seeking a way to add more legitimacy to such an important part of the sport.
—Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2025
Still, the bottom line is that the age-old enjoyment that comes from your morning cup of coffee is mostly a win.
—Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
The bottom line is people should not be fleeing from Milwaukee police, Johnson said.
—Jack Albright, jsonline.com, 9 Aug. 2025
All in all, the bottom line is that AI is predicted to gut the need for human therapists.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
The bottom line is the one-race format hasn’t felt credible enough as a championship, and the playoff committee members are seeking a way to add more legitimacy to such an important part of the sport.
—Jeff Gluck, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2025
Still, the bottom line is that the age-old enjoyment that comes from your morning cup of coffee is mostly a win.
—Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 2 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bottom-line
Noun
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To capture the true essence of the college, the Netflix movie was filmed inside the school buildings and at various spots around the university.—
Caroline Blair,
People.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Empower responded, in essence, that retirement savers deserve a crack at the lucrative private investment market, after decades of exclusion.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
5 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Determining adjacent products like donuts for coffee and chips for sodas is logical.—
Tamara Bebb,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Many have read Gödel and come away chastened by the limits of certainty—without concluding, as Richardson did, that the logical next step was to spend your life playing cards and paying prostitutes.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Some of those included nominations in the country and American roots categories for the first time.—
Caché McClay,
USA Today,
13 Aug. 2025
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Here's everything to know about the event, including this year's theme, schedule and a brief history of its Cincinnati roots.—
Grace Tucker,
The Enquirer,
13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Sir Charlie Mayfield, a stalwart of the UK business community and advisor to Liz Kendall, Work and Pensions Secretary, has recently been quoted in The Times stating that employers have a ‘rational’ fear of hiring disabled staff.—
Nancy Doyle,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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The irony was that Harlem’s numbers queen, a model of rational risk-taking, found herself in a love triangle with a dream-book mystic—then took to the newspapers to denounce Futtam’s obvious impostures.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The July consumer price index was relatively in line with market forecasts, though the core reading that excludes food and energy nudged higher to 3.1%, a bit above Wall Street expectations.—
Jeff Cox,
CNBC,
15 Aug. 2025
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At the core of this leadership practice lies coaching—not the performance-review archetype, but deep, generative coaching that shifts mindsets, surfaces mental models and anchors purpose in action.—
Thomas Lim,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Overwhelmingly, their responses were unsentimental.—
Hannah Pittard,
People.com,
8 July 2025
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The national mindset is pragmatic, unsentimental, and profit-oriented.—
Kevin West,
Travel + Leisure,
16 July 2025
Noun
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There are people who have really their heart in the right place.—
Ed Meza,
Variety,
7 Aug. 2025
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By the time the credits rolled my heart was ragged.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Aug. 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 19 Aug. 2025.
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