Sentence examples for essentially basically from inspiring English sources

The word "essentially" is vital here because, for a long time, I couldn't use the word rape in isolation to describe what was happening without an adverb to lessen the crime: essentially, basically, kind of, almost.

I would emphasize that what the Florida Supreme Court did is basically essentially say we're rewriting the statute, we're changing it.

And it's here, as I tried to suggest to Cost and Davis, that Boehner's negotiating position went from nearly untenable to essentially impossible, because he had basically nothing to bring to the table, no carrots to offer the White House, no concessions on taxes or spending that wouldn't be rejected by his stakeholders as thoroughly as Davis's executive's deal was rejected by his bosses.

Basically, what I'm saying is that what they are asking is essentially already the case".

That basically meant every town and essentially meant Oswalt was being told he could not compete with anyone.

Then Oprah basically laughed at him for showing such hubris, essentially saying, "What were you thinking?!??!" "That was just more defiance," he said.

It was the introduction into the broadsheet of the essentially comic mechanism of caricature that established the "comic strip" as basically comic in both form and content.

An electron tube or transistor, designated an active element, functions basically as an amplifier, and its output is essentially an amplified copy of the original input signal.

Their rocky road to commitment encompasses struggles between tradition and modernity, duty and dreams, and, most important, male (steadfast, dull, basically right) and female (headstrong, selfish, essentially wrong).

The Classical curriculum pattern, comprising basically Latin, Greek, mathematics, philosophy, and theology, was to be essentially preserved in the French Canadian development of collèges classiques for secondary education.

This is basically just a variation on a classic attack ad, essentially a just-barely-honest tactic usable against almost any member of Congress.