as in mostly
for the most part
by and large, that information is accurate
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Recent Examples of by and large
Marlowe is intent on criminal justice, and on how easily it is rusted and bent, but social justice, by and large, leaves him unperturbed.
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Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
French mathematicians were by and large content to keep going.
—Solomon Adams, WIRED, 23 Feb. 2025
Yet the real people who dominate the scammer entertainment of the 2020s are not, by and large, powerful politicians or titans of industry.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 6 Feb. 2025
While the world’s largest ocean carriers are by and large continuing to avoid the Red Sea, the operator of the Suez Canal stated its case for a future return.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 4 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for by and large
Adverb
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Although exquisitely rendered, their mostly pale, mostly grisaille palette puts these images at a ghostly remove from reality.—
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The artifacts, which mostly consist of Egyptian pottery, were found during a recent excavation of the ancient city of Megiddo in northern Israel.—
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Try These Two Easy Ways Flavor Gone are the days when instant was synonymous with weak coffee, bitter and astringent, and mainly made with Robusta beans instead of the preferred arabica.—
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Most of the developers of AI technologies are mainly focused on capabilities and performance, but more data and more compute won’t fix the bias issue.—
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Avoiding the Pitfalls of Greenwashing Greenwashing—the practice of misleading consumers about environmental efforts—was coined by environmentalist Jay Westerveld nearly 40 years ago, when hotels promoted towel reuse as an environmental initiative while primarily aiming to cut costs.—
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While primarily measured in his actions, Cromwell is outwardly exhausted.—
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The system is log-jammed here chiefly because there are too many bodies and too few pathologists and toxicologists to handle the load.—
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Around 65,000 moved to the U.S., chiefly to the East Coast; also to cities in western Pennsylvania and Ohio.—
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For the Celtics, there were 24 points from Brown but only 16 from Tatum, who struggled to 4-of-17 shooting, largely against the defense of Larsson.—
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The country lawyer saw a chance to engage Virginia’s small farmers and tenants, most of whom remained loyal to the king and largely indifferent to tensions with Britain.—
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With last summer’s signing Sander Berge acting predominantly as the sole pivot to instigate his side’s build-up, the remaining midfielders push forward to form a triangle on either side of him — typically Emile Smith Rowe on the left and either Sasa Lukic or Andreas Pereira on the right.—
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In the final episode of When Life Gives You Tangerines, the precious agony of being alive is borne out in the death of Gwan-sik (played predominantly by Park Hae-joon in these final episodes), Ae-sun’s beloved husband and Geum-myeong and Eun-myeong’s dad.—
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My wife has basically stopped talking to me during Survivor seasons, finally conceding defeat to my limited attention span.—
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The Bravia 5s are, after all, basically Sony’s new mid-range LCD TV offering.—
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“By and large.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/by%20and%20large. Accessed 9 Apr. 2025.
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