as in mostly
for the most part
you mainly need to focus on improving your golf swing
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Recent Examples of mainly
It’s mainly established that Kate and Jaclyn lead happy and fulfilling lives — on the surface anyway — while Laurie is struggling in some as-yet-unspecified way.
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Noel Murray, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
For a long time, Google Maps couldn’t match the quality of the reporting on its own Maps app, which mainly showed alerts for congestion, crashes, or roadwork.
—Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 14 Feb. 2025
The first few galleries are devoted mainly to Friedrich’s early drawings, many crafted following his relocation to Dresden in 1798.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Feb. 2025
Precipitation could briefly start as a mix of sleet and freezing rain in Chicago Wednesday evening before changing mainly to freezing rain overnight.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
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Noel Murray, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2025
For a long time, Google Maps couldn’t match the quality of the reporting on its own Maps app, which mainly showed alerts for congestion, crashes, or roadwork.
—Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 14 Feb. 2025
The first few galleries are devoted mainly to Friedrich’s early drawings, many crafted following his relocation to Dresden in 1798.
—Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 5 Feb. 2025
Precipitation could briefly start as a mix of sleet and freezing rain in Chicago Wednesday evening before changing mainly to freezing rain overnight.
—Mary Gilbert, CNN, 5 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mainly
Adverb
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Conditions are expected to be mostly cloudy with a high of 59.—
Matt Hubbard,
Baltimore Sun,
24 Feb. 2025
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The survey also found that while more than half of Russians said the war had a mostly negative effect on their daily lives, compared to five months ago, fewer people supported Putin withdrawing troops without achieving the war's goals.—
Mark Joseph,
Newsweek,
24 Feb. 2025
Adverb
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The company has billions in government contracts, primarily with NASA and the Pentagon.—
April Rubin,
Axios,
18 Feb. 2025
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The 15th and 25th anniversary shows were primarily made up of cast members introducing archival clips.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
17 Feb. 2025
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It is specifically engineered to monitor solar activity, and chiefly keeps an eye on the sun's corona — the outermost layer of its atmosphere — to help scientists forecast space weather that could affect Earth.—
Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
17 Feb. 2025
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Grier is chiefly responsible for bringing in draftees and free agents to help the team go far, but that has not been the case.—
Josh Hammer,
Newsweek,
14 Feb. 2025
Adverb
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While its dominance of cable news has remained largely intact, Fox News has wavered over the years both in its coverage of Trump and, at times, in its battles for viewers with CNN and MSNBC.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
25 Feb. 2025
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That is an impressive accumulation for any soloist from South Korea, and many of his wins came quite a few years ago when solo stars from that part of the world were largely unable to hit the tally.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes,
25 Feb. 2025
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The fact that the L.A. County fires predominantly spread house-to-house is evidence that building codes were sorely inadequate.—
Charlie Campbell / Melbourne and Canberra,
TIME,
19 Feb. 2025
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The oil price cap was heavily criticized when it was first deployed in December 2022 as being too easy for Russia to work around and designed predominantly to maintain the flow of the country's oil and fuels.—
Donato Paolo Mancini Bloomberg,
arkansasonline.com,
19 Feb. 2025
Adverb
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Garcia said Lopez is basically offering only a stick, and no carrot.—
Alexandra Glorioso,
Miami Herald,
25 Feb. 2025
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One project, spearheaded by a staffer now on administrative leave, according to Ortiz, sought to relocate a wastewater treatment plant in Richwood, W.V., that has been basically inoperable since a 2016 flood.—
Alana Semuels,
TIME,
25 Feb. 2025
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The algorithm reacts more favorably to content with babies and toddlers, with that content generally performing better than content featuring older children.—
Fortesa Latifi,
Rolling Stone,
16 Feb. 2025
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With PPOs — preferred provider organizations — people are generally allowed to see medical providers outside their networks, although those visits will cost more.—
Liz Weston,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Feb. 2025
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“Mainly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mainly. Accessed 28 Feb. 2025.
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