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
Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
Inflation and customers cutting back on discretionary spending also hurt bottlers’ bottom lines.
—Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
The end result has been calamitous for the company’s bottom line.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2024
That will be great for corporate bottom lines, at least in the short run.
—Peter Green, Quartz, 4 Nov. 2024
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The bottom line The world will be watching America in the coming days, as the country sets its course for the next four years following elections.
—Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2024
Inflation and customers cutting back on discretionary spending also hurt bottlers’ bottom lines.
—Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 4 Nov. 2024
The end result has been calamitous for the company’s bottom line.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2024
That will be great for corporate bottom lines, at least in the short run.
—Peter Green, Quartz, 4 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bottom line
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In essence, the Magic Trackpad is just a larger version of the touchpad found on MacBooks.PCMAG, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
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In essence, the Fed has satisfied its dual mandate of keeping inflation and unemployment low.Rob Wile, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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And after a quarter century in the National Guard, teaching, and coaching, why shouldn't the next logical step be Congress?Keenan Robbins, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Lots of people know how the beginning of the AI revolution led to replacing the idea of a CPU with a GPU: a more sophisticated and specialized type of logical processor that lent itself to machine learning and related work.John Werner, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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The village, which is around 215 miles from the coastal Indian city of Chennai, has multiple banners and billboards of Harris, who could become America's first leader with South Asian roots.Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Digging into intrinsic motivation is about finding the emotional, psychological or even philosophical roots of why that goal matters to you, beyond the paycheck.Akin Akinpelu, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
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But the curve also has a second family of rational points.Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 11 Nov. 2024
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It can also be made more orderly, rational, and humane.Eladio B. Bobadilla / Made by History, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
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The core question, however, is whether these changes will be enough to help Starbucks compete in a crowded market, according to Deidre Popovich, an associate professor of marketing at Texas Tech University.Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2024
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The system, which has 50 stations across all five counties in the core Bay Area, has a total ridership of more than 4.8 million.Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
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The cousins’ eventual arrival at the home Grandma Dory left behind to escape the Nazis is handled in a way that’s unsentimental yet also credible and thoroughly touching, with a gentle twist that nicely serves the arc of David and Benji’s roller-coaster relationship.Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
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In the extreme dry taking summer into winter, its flange collects the scant dew, converting it into persistence and unsentimental imagery.John Kinsella, The New York Review of Books, 31 Oct. 2024
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In today’s deal, North’s leap to four hearts is preemptive, and West doubles that outrage with his 23 high-card points.Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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Scherzinger wrote alongside a prayer emoji and a heart emoji.Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 9 Nov. 2024
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The system is simple, if unromantic: One partner proposes through the app, and the other is sent a notification.Chris Stokel-Walker, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024
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But engagement is often seen as a highly emotional and symbolic act and asking the recipient to sign a legal document in connection with receiving the ring may feel transactional or unromantic.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Bottom line.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bottom%20line. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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