As Ray C. Fair, the Yale economist, puts it, "essentially, we economists believe that when markets are efficient, they will produce the best results".
Or is it something more slippery and suspect - "a covert advertising campaign,", as the film's Wikipedia entry puts it; "essentially an advert," in the opinion of CNN.
This low barrier to entry, where Smartsheet "monetises only those who are initiating and creating work on the platform," as Mader puts it, essentially lures in many users, some of whom eventually convert to paying customers.
"His mental processes," as Moley put it, "were essentially political".
And I'm not exaggerating: during the fight over the debt ceiling, Republicans tried to attach riders that, as Time magazine put it, would essentially have blocked the E.P.A. and the Interior Department from doing their jobs.
As the EFF put it: "CISPA essentially equates greater cybersecurity with greater surveillance and information sharing.
Or as Armstrong put it, XPS essentially has created what IBM believes will be the future of how people interact with commerce (and other) services in the future.
Two years ago, officials with NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that a key weather and climate satellite called NPP scheduled for launch next year would be, as we put it then, "essentially colorblind, at least as far as the oceans are concerned".
As Mr. Southerland, who checks his blood sugar 18 to 25 times a day, put it, "We are essentially the C.E.O.'s of our own bodies and we don't get a break from them".
Or as Slate's economics correspondent Matthew Yglesias put it, "Wall Street has essentially granted Bezos the right to operate an extremely forward-looking charitable venture on the theory that at some future point it will acquire monopoly pricing power and start screwing us all".
