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
Liz Napolitano,darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2026
The bottom line Filing for bankruptcy without an attorney is legally permissible but practically challenging.
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
The bottom-line is that California has a housing shortage.
—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 27 Jan. 2026
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Noun
Eli Lilly — The drugmaker's surged almost 9% after posting higher-than-expected results on its top and bottom lines in the fourth quarter.
—Liz Napolitano,darla Mercado, Cfp®, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2026
The bottom line Filing for bankruptcy without an attorney is legally permissible but practically challenging.
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
Adjective
The bottom-line mandate for the Bruins on Monday night was to grab two points against the worst team in the Eastern Conference.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 27 Jan. 2026
The bottom-line is that California has a housing shortage.
—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 27 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bottom line
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is an amalgam of Hollywood archetypes, the essence of a big-screen hero boiled down and maybe left on the stove too long.—
Alex Galbraith,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Feb. 2026
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Each pad is soaked in a calming essence built around the brand’s proprietary Artemisia-Cica blend—a K-beauty-favorite pairing of artemisia (mugwort) and Centella asiatica.—
Christa Joanna Lee,
Allure,
15 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Next logical step in electromobility The goal is to advance the use of high-voltage technologies in electric vehicles and define safety standards.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Feb. 2026
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However, Murdaugh’s attorneys have argued this motive did not make logical sense.—
Eric Levenson,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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While neighboring vineyards resorted to grafting their vines onto pest-resistant American roots, DRC used various intensive strategies to keep its original European vines intact, at least until the 1940s.—
Pin Yen Tan 9 min ago,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
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In 2017, McRae went back to her YouTube roots and uploaded a video of herself singing an original ballad.—
Janelle Ash,
FOXNews.com,
6 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Perardi tried to stay rational.—
Matthew Bremner,
Rolling Stone,
11 Feb. 2026
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This disconnect between individual choice and individual benefit represents not merely an economic inefficiency but a philosophical failure to respect the rational agency of health care consumers.—
Jared Rhoads,
STAT,
10 Feb. 2026
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From the outside, the structure, which stands next to a large mirror, resembles a human heart.—
Precious Adesina,
CNN Money,
17 Feb. 2026
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At its heart is a walkable downtown anchored by Falls Park on the Reedy, where waterfalls, lush landscaping, and the Liberty Bridge create a postcard-worthy setting just steps from Main Street’s shops, restaurants, and galleries.—
Lauren Dana Ellman,
Travel + Leisure,
16 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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In his experiences and chronicles of the great ideological battles of the twentieth century, Curzio Malaparte was a shape-shifter—pitiless, clinical, cynical, unsentimental, indifferent to morality and idealism.—
Leah Downey,
The New York Review of Books,
7 Feb. 2026
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White’s dialogue is unsentimental but rife with anguish; Owen Teague and a seductive, destructive Abbey Lee give the pain its due.—
Brian Seibert,
New Yorker,
6 Feb. 2026
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Perhaps, on extremely long timescales, those heavier elements will sink to the center of the core, producing an inert center that slows the rate of fusion even further.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
6 Feb. 2026
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Sina Azodi, the director of the Middle East Studies Program at George Washington University, told Fox News Digital that Khamenei’s authority stems from direct control over Iran’s core power centers.—
Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
6 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Small-Business Mindset Listening to both Cook and Drew, all of this sounds unromantic in the best possible way.—
Dana Harris-Bridson,
IndieWire,
10 Feb. 2026
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Using these unromantic, 50,000-ton auxiliaries to test the new battleship hull-form, mechanical systems or electrical innovations makes sense.—
Craig Hooper,
Forbes.com,
13 Jan. 2026
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