as in mainly
for the most part
our video collection consists chiefly of comedies, but we have a few horror movies
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Recent Examples of chiefly
This reflected higher capital expenditure in the period, Dunelm said, chiefly due to acquisition activity.
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Royston Wild, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
This unusual chemical process is confined chiefly around the comet's head, not its tail.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025
This level of intimacy is chiefly reserved for romantic partners and spouses — partnerships where sharing finances is essential to the relationship.
—Essence, 5 Sep. 2025
The specialty retailer’s chief financial officer, Robert Ball, said Abercrombie has seen about $5 million in adverse impact from tariffs during the second quarter, chiefly manifested in the cost of sales, and expects $90 million net impact from tariffs for the year.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 4 Sep. 2025
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Royston Wild, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
This unusual chemical process is confined chiefly around the comet's head, not its tail.
—Joe Rao, Space.com, 8 Sep. 2025
This level of intimacy is chiefly reserved for romantic partners and spouses — partnerships where sharing finances is essential to the relationship.
—Essence, 5 Sep. 2025
The specialty retailer’s chief financial officer, Robert Ball, said Abercrombie has seen about $5 million in adverse impact from tariffs during the second quarter, chiefly manifested in the cost of sales, and expects $90 million net impact from tariffs for the year.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 4 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chiefly
Adverb
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Once loud and bubbly, Thorley, 51, now mainly communicates by typing on an iPad, along with sign language.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
5 Oct. 2025
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This is because the fire will burn off mainly vapors, not the alcohol itself.—
Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
5 Oct. 2025
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The Uncut Gems star and wife Jackie tied the knot back in 2003, and have been tight-knit ever since, keeping their personal life mostly private while turning many of their film projects into family affairs.—
Bailey Richards,
PEOPLE,
1 Oct. 2025
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In October 2011, during the peak of Glee, Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk debuted a horror series that eventually broke ground as the first anthology to reinvent itself each season with a brand-new story, setting, and characters played by (mostly) familiar faces.—
James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
1 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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There are also patchy or partial fall colors in the western part of the country, primarily in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona, and Nevada.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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Historically, people have primarily been consumers of media, not creators.—
Brian Stelter,
CNN Money,
3 Oct. 2025
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Coming off his strong game at Washington, this was another step forward for Sayin, who had largely been asked to keep the ball short in his first month as starter.—
Cameron Teague Robinson,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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Today, there are active farm-to-school programs in all fifty states; almost half of these started up in the past few years, owing largely to the influx of Biden-era funding.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
4 Oct. 2025
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The plan envisions a reconstructed strip supported principally by regional players that could stabilize the region and provide in the short term humanitarian relief and in the long term economic opportunities to Gazans.—
Asher Kaufman,
The Conversation,
30 Sep. 2025
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The relationships that Mark forms in the course of his career are similarly simplified—principally, his hearty bromance with Mark Coleman (Ryan Bader), who is first his trainer and then, entering the circuit himself, a competitor.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 Sep. 2025
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And for Blacks, in a city that was predominantly Black, to be able to see yourself on television on a regular basis meant a lot to us.—
Scott Talley,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Analysis of the site shows that the burial population had predominantly (77 percent) western British and Irish ancestry.—
Duncan Sayer,
JSTOR Daily,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Chiefly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chiefly. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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