as in considerably
to a large extent or degree
The recipe made significantly more cookies than I was expecting. The vet informed us that Fluffy was significantly overweight and would need to be put on a diet.
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Recent Examples of significantly
Global meat consumption continues to rise year by year, and has increased significantly in recent decades.
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Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Feldman, who has been taking part in daily rehearsals with Johnson, explained that his previous experience with dancing significantly differed from learning to master ballroom dance under his partner's guidance.
—Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Members of the city’s Planning Commission said recently that those height limits should be raised significantly, especially at the trolley stations.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
Researchers also confirmed that the Super-X design is significantly easier to manage than conventional, short-legged divertors.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2025
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Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Feldman, who has been taking part in daily rehearsals with Johnson, explained that his previous experience with dancing significantly differed from learning to master ballroom dance under his partner's guidance.
—Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Members of the city’s Planning Commission said recently that those height limits should be raised significantly, especially at the trolley stations.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
Researchers also confirmed that the Super-X design is significantly easier to manage than conventional, short-legged divertors.
—Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for significantly
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In recent weeks grosses for the show have slipped considerably, with the weekly take at the end of August sliding to an unsustainable $505,142.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
7 Sep. 2025
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Huntr/x and Saja Boys The number of 10-week-charters on the Hot 100 from K-pop acts is about to grow considerably.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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What this means is that someone who posts adult content on OnlyFans can pay substantially less in taxes than most workers with the exact same income simply by soliciting gifts from their viewers, because the IRS will consider those gifts to be tax-deductible tips.—
Ben Ritz,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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The new study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, found that 213 heat waves were substantially more likely and intense because of the activity of major fossil fuel producers, also called carbon majors.—
Julia Simon,
NPR,
11 Sep. 2025
Adverb
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This is when a bone gets knocked out of its joint either partially or completely.—
Bruce Y. Lee,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Lecornu will now have to steer a budget through France’s completely fractured parliament, macro strategists at Deutsche Bank flagged Wednesday.—
Holly Ellyatt,
CNBC,
10 Sep. 2025
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This new prototype expanded graphics to 384x256, allowed the use of more RAM, and ran at 8 MHz, making the prototype noticeably faster than the 5 MHz Lisa yet substantially cheaper.—
Cameron Kaiser,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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The island moves to its own beat—one that is noticeably slower than life on the mainland.—
Evie Carrick,
Travel + Leisure,
12 Sep. 2025
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More Bryan Bennett/Getty Images Josh Allen went off in the fourth quarter to drive the Bills to victory against a true AFC contender, though the effort wasn't totally perfect.—
Tim Crowley,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Sep. 2025
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The evidence of what happened during the COVID times, in my view, [is that] there’s a lot of public accountability on the central banks—not just in the United States but everywhere—and that’s totally fine.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
8 Sep. 2025
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Stephen Colbert was absolutely number one.—
Wesley Stenzel,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Sep. 2025
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All of us here at Frontiersman are absolutely heartbroken about this tragedy.—
Adam Sabes,
FOXNews.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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“Significantly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/significantly. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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