as in basically
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Kennedy has pushed good nutrition and vitamin A supplementation as viable solutions to the Texas outbreak—suggesting, essentially, that the country’s approach to the disease should be to try to limit the damage of infections rather than prevent them.
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Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2025
Two of which came over UCLA. USC, at its best, is essentially unbeatable.
—Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2025
With the use of an external device, generally a computer, BCIs essentially facilitate communication between a person’s brain and that device.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 10 Mar. 2025
The latest flu season, which normally would have run until next month, essentially never happened.
—Aatish Bhatia, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2025
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Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2025
Two of which came over UCLA. USC, at its best, is essentially unbeatable.
—Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2025
With the use of an external device, generally a computer, BCIs essentially facilitate communication between a person’s brain and that device.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 10 Mar. 2025
The latest flu season, which normally would have run until next month, essentially never happened.
—Aatish Bhatia, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2025
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“Essentially.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/essentially. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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