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
The agreement calls for an immediate end to hostilities on all fronts, including Lebanon, and sets out expectations for the next phase of talks, which will tackle more challenging issues, mainly the future of Iran's nuclear program.
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Francesca Chambers,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
America250 appears to focus mainly on getting Americans involved in celebrations at the local level, such as attending synchronized nationwide block parties.
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Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
18 June 2026
While neither show could be described as a critic’s darling, due mainly to complaints about the story lines, the tunes involved are the kind of iconic works that bring fans back to a certain place and time.
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Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
18 June 2026
Exceeding expectations As a trip set mainly in concentration camps, sadness is often the top expectation.
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Jessica Tzikas,
Sun Sentinel,
18 June 2026
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Francesca Chambers,
USA Today,
18 June 2026
America250 appears to focus mainly on getting Americans involved in celebrations at the local level, such as attending synchronized nationwide block parties.
—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
18 June 2026
While neither show could be described as a critic’s darling, due mainly to complaints about the story lines, the tunes involved are the kind of iconic works that bring fans back to a certain place and time.
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Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
18 June 2026
Exceeding expectations As a trip set mainly in concentration camps, sadness is often the top expectation.
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Jessica Tzikas,
Sun Sentinel,
18 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mainly
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The mostly White, progressive and relatively affluent district is among the most Jewish in the country.
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Mammalian scopes are mostly around 10 but go up to 20 for horses and just above 30 for canids.
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Fundstrat said the higher target was driven primarily by improving earnings expectations rather than richer valuations.
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Where to watch the Special Olympics The Special Olympics are taking place in Minnesota, primarily in and around the Twin Cities, through June 26.
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But the accord already faces threats, chiefly from Lebanon, with the fighting there leading to the delay in the start of talks.
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The measure chiefly calls for the 5% income tax rate to be gradually stepped down to 4% over a three-year period, but the case hinged on other impacts of the proposal.
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The United States Geological Survey said that although more resistant buildings exist, the population in the affected region largely lives in structures that are vulnerable to earthquake shaking.
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That move largely spares local governments budgetary hits that nonpartisan legislative analysts pegged between $2 billion to $3 billion annually.
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Again, the demographics in the North End are predominantly Black.
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Swain scored 1,509 points over four years at Columbus Africentric Early College, a predominantly Black magnet school on the east side of Columbus, Ohio.
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Oppenheimer’s note was principally focused, fitting for a global strategist, on how equity returns will be reshaped in a new regime.
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The laser targeted one of three ground stations, principally NASA's White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Table Mountain Facility in California, with a third, experimental ground station at the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory.
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This new book is basically a condensation and a dumbing down of those ideas.
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But the total tally obscures how there were basically two types of Davis residents, those living close to the project and those living elsewhere in town.
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While it is generally accepted as ‘sometime in September every year’, that’s a wide window for consumers and the competition to come to terms with.
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The agency said air monitoring conducted Wednesday evening found particulate matter levels were generally near background levels, although brief increases were detected within the smoke plume.
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“Mainly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mainly. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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