as in mostly
for the most part
your answer is basically correct
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Recent Examples of basically
The $253 million 2023 team basically put its jerseys on the field for five months and were all but out of the playoff race by the time September arrived.
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Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
Well, on the immigration issue, the open embrace of empathy in that platform is on the part of people who basically are using empathy as an argument against having any meaningful citizenship, nationality, national borders, etc.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2025
The only person who really has stood up to him, the person who has basically done what no other person has ever done in his realm inside the residential school.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 31 Mar. 2025
Before that, there was basically nothing publicly linking him to this process or any other billion-dollar sports sale in the past.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 21 Mar. 2025
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Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
Well, on the immigration issue, the open embrace of empathy in that platform is on the part of people who basically are using empathy as an argument against having any meaningful citizenship, nationality, national borders, etc.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2025
The only person who really has stood up to him, the person who has basically done what no other person has ever done in his realm inside the residential school.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 31 Mar. 2025
Before that, there was basically nothing publicly linking him to this process or any other billion-dollar sports sale in the past.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 21 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for basically
Adverb
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Although exquisitely rendered, their mostly pale, mostly grisaille palette puts these images at a ghostly remove from reality.—
Barry Schwabsky,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2025
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The Knicks have been mostly healthy, leading to their stellar season.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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Belfort's reaction to the portrayal of himself and his life in The Wolf of Wall Street was mainly positive.—
Erica Marrison,
People.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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Still, sources told TMZ that Kenya felt wronged by Bravo, with the two mainly disagreeing over the gun claim and Kenya’s safety.—
Jason Pham,
StyleCaster,
6 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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Like beef, rice sold in the U.S. is domestically produced, but nearly a third is imported, primarily jasmine rice from Thailand and basmati rice from India, the USDA states.—
Jonathan Limehouse,
USA Today,
6 Apr. 2025
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For plush toys specifically, that growth primarily began in the pandemic, said Juli Lennett, US toys industry adviser at Circana.—
Leah Asmelash,
CNN Money,
6 Apr. 2025
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For the Celtics, there were 24 points from Brown but only 16 from Tatum, who struggled to 4-of-17 shooting, largely against the defense of Larsson.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Apr. 2025
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The magic is largely due to the formula’s pH (around 3.5) which keeps the ingredient active and able to effectively decongest the pore.—
Emily Orofino,
Vogue,
2 Apr. 2025
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Reagan ran for his first office, that governorship, chiefly on that platform, of gutting Berkeley, glorious, research-prodigious, most incredible public university ever Berkeley.—
Brian Domitrovic,
Forbes.com,
6 Apr. 2025
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Lawmakers chiefly are trying to work out the delicate balance of extending Trump’s tax cuts, trimming Medicaid, increasing defense spending and raising the debt ceiling — without losing votes needed to pass Trump’s priorities and while finding room for agreement with the House.—
Elizabeth Crisp,
The Hill,
4 Apr. 2025
Adverb
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Interestingly, the benefit was restricted to those who consumed predominantly dark chocolate, who experienced whopping 21% decrease in developing Type 2 diabetes.—
Paul Hsieh,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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In the final episode of When Life Gives You Tangerines, the precious agony of being alive is borne out in the death of Gwan-sik (played predominantly by Park Hae-joon in these final episodes), Ae-sun’s beloved husband and Geum-myeong and Eun-myeong’s dad.—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
28 Mar. 2025
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Smokers and those with diabetes are generally not good candidates, as the tummy skin is undermined during the surgery, and these conditions can affect circulation and slow healing.—
Michelle Lee,
People.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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Indians generally revere elephants and tolerate a great deal of hardship to enable coexistence—about 500 humans are killed due to human-elephant conflict annually there.—
Nitin Sekar,
ArsTechnica,
5 Apr. 2025
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“Basically.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/basically. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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