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es·sen·tial·ly

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  1. basically, fundamentally, essentiallyadverb

    in essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature

    "He is basically dishonest"; "the argument was essentially a technical one"; "for all his bluster he is in essence a shy person"

    Synonyms:
    fundamentally, basically

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#2913mostly
#3985primarily
#4284mainly
#5271basically
#5537largely
#6082virtually
#6424essentially
#7324substantially
#10988practically
#13980broadly
#15023predominantly
#16652fundamentally
#18393principally
#18594inherently
#22734chiefly

How to use essentially in a sentence?

  1. Alex Kursman:

    Because of Mr. Johnson’s and Mr. Hicks’ COVID diagnosis, the lethal injection protocol is essentially going to waterboard them to death, being waterboarded to death violates the Eighth Amendment.

  2. Emma Salisbury:

    The LCS was essentially counted to solve every single one of the Navy's problems all at once and everything will be wonderful.

  3. Tom Painter:

    The scanning LIDAR is a fancy laser pointer, essentially, that sprays out laser pulses – about 500,000 pulses per second – flying along at 23,000 feet, and measures how long it takes for the laser pulse to go out, hit the surface and come back, and we can use that information to then know the surface of the snow. Every square foot of mountain snow is touched by our lasers.

  4. Abe George:

    There was an attorney for Club Med, strangely enough, that the court declared an interested party who got to cross-examine witnesses. And there was an attorney for the police department there who also cross-examined witnesses. And the attorney for the police department and the attorney for the club led essentially the same team, cross-examining the medical examiner, trying to cast doubt about his determination of manual strangulation, it was incredible. It was one of the craziest things I've seen.

  5. Jason Chao:

    There's a trend for them to use the criminal justice system as justification for getting information from you, for searching your house, they're doing it to essentially deter us from escalating the movement.


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