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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And the film has stood the test of time, capturing the essence of America's early space program for posterity.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
29 June 2025
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Those forecasts are based on the idea that many U.S. stocks are overpriced, in essence, and trading above their real value.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
28 June 2025
Adjective
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Greater Robustness And Reliability: Better equipped to handle out-of-distribution data and novel scenarios safely and reliably by incorporating safety parameters, constraints and logical invariants.—
Anuradha Weeraman,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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Taking this approach minimizes the frustration of figuring out where to store something and ensures everything has a logical place in your home.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
30 June 2025
Noun
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With restaurants and humanitarian missions around the world, Chef José Andrés is globally renowned but always returns to his birthplace, Asturias, to reconnect with his roots.—
Rana Good,
Forbes.com,
26 June 2025
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The billion-dollar tourist attraction with south Texas roots has been inching north into other states and is on track to start building a new location off Village West Parkway in KCK this year.—
Sofi Zeman,
Kansas City Star,
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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Confined to her bed, Isla is given to violent fits and delusional behavior, slipping in and out of rational consciousness.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
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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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
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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
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 5 Jul. 2025.
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