as in mostly
for the most part
you mainly need to focus on improving your golf swing
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Recent Examples of mainly
Fire will mainly creep and smolder, and spotting potential will be reduced by higher relative humidity.
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Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Of the group of close friends — composed mainly of high-level soccer players — who take those offseason trips together, Bond is the only one Holding has yet to play against.
—Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
It was found that people who took at least 16-hour breaks from eating were almost twice as likely to die from a cardiovascular event (mainly heart attack or stroke) than those who ate more often.
—Frederik Jötten, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2025
During an exclusive interview with PEOPLE in March 2024, Wahlberg explained that his and his wife’s decision to move away from California was mainly for the benefit of their kids.
—Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
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Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Of the group of close friends — composed mainly of high-level soccer players — who take those offseason trips together, Bond is the only one Holding has yet to play against.
—Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
It was found that people who took at least 16-hour breaks from eating were almost twice as likely to die from a cardiovascular event (mainly heart attack or stroke) than those who ate more often.
—Frederik Jötten, Scientific American, 12 Sep. 2025
During an exclusive interview with PEOPLE in March 2024, Wahlberg explained that his and his wife’s decision to move away from California was mainly for the benefit of their kids.
—Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 11 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mainly
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Kiko mostly bypassed the Hawaiian islands with its fiercest winds, as so many storms have before, and will instead fade off into the Pacific Ocean over the vast western end of the island chain that remains a mystery to many.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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The upside, however, to sitting through this questionable season of what has been a mostly dreamy series?—
Vogue,
Vogue,
11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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But 10 days into our Patagonian adventure, a little water—okay, a lot of water—wasn’t enough to deter us from heading out on a Zodiac tour around the Tucker Islets, a small cluster of islands and outcrops in the Strait of Magellan inhabited primarily by Magellanic penguins.—
Stefanie Waldek,
AFAR Media,
12 Sep. 2025
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Much of the world's launch capacity today is used to deploy smaller communications satellites into low-Earth orbit, primarily for broadband connectivity rather than for the video broadcast market once dominated by higher-altitude geosynchronous satellites.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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This reflected higher capital expenditure in the period, Dunelm said, chiefly due to acquisition activity.—
Royston Wild,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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This unusual chemical process is confined chiefly around the comet's head, not its tail.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The talk show host had not revealed his children's names and has largely kept their faces off of social media.—
Michael Loria,
USA Today,
13 Sep. 2025
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And largely that is replaced with people on devices or on video games.—
Don Riddell,
CNN Money,
13 Sep. 2025
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Also included are funds for predominantly Black institutions and Native American-serving institutions, which are colleges that educate a large share of Black or Native students, but are not designated by the government as historically Black colleges or universities (HBCUs) or tribal colleges.—
Michael T. Nietzel,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Charitable care systems began when hospitals were led by nuns who predominantly cared for the sick and poor.—
Megan Garnai,
IndyStar,
10 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The evolving advances and widespread adoption of generative AI have principally spurred this rising use of AI.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Jhonatan’s story echoes that of many Colombian fighters, driven by a sense of duty, but shaped principally by economic insecurity that makes enlisting abroad a more viable and lucrative option.—
Rebecca Johns,
Miami Herald,
6 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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The overlap in the Venn diagram of the beliefs of Mormons (especially the reality-TV variety) and the traditional values The Bachelor has long espoused is basically a circle.—
Olivia Crandall,
Vulture,
10 Sep. 2025
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That’s another bit of positive news for consumer prices since basically all food, clothing and other consumer goods are transported from factories to market via ships, planes, trucks, and trains which run some variant of Diesel fuel.—
David Blackmon,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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More generally, the Nepalese public criticized the government’s measures disproportionate impact on ordinary users.—
Nir Kshetri,
The Conversation,
14 Sep. 2025
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Cities would also generally be prevented from imposing height and density limits based on how close a development is near a transit stop.—
Stephen Hobbs,
Sacbee.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Mainly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mainly. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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