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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are not chiefly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is not primarily or mainly a certain way or characteristic.
Example: "The issues we face are not chiefly financial, but rather social and environmental."
Alternatives: "are not primarily" or "are not mainly".
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That is, they are not chiefly reliant on empirical observation.
But decisions made about the death penalty are not chiefly about numbers.
His idea was that oil and other hydrocarbons are being constantly generated by a microbial process and are not chiefly the result of decaying organic plant matter.
That is because the continent's politicians are not chiefly motivated by the desire to cut Greece's debt burden to a sustainable level.
Despite complaints by critics, they say the communications are not chiefly vehicles for development interests to gain an advantage.
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The much cited difficulties regarding putting Wonder Woman on film — Wonder Woman isn't big enough, and neither are Gal Gadot's breasts — aren't chiefly about Wonder Woman, or comic books, or superheroes, or movies.
The record-breaking drought in California is not chiefly the result of low precipitation.
The calculation here is not chiefly electoral, and certainly not based on these latest results.
And it is not chiefly ideological; it is not that he signed the land-for-security peace plan with the Palestinians.
It would be better applied to a meeting which is not chiefly a festival of self-congratulation and, as in Genoa's particular case, a public-relations disaster.
His differences with Erdoğan were not chiefly over the issues that have aroused mass protest, but rather with his rhetorical style and his polarising stances in the Middle East.
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