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for the most part
by and large, that information is accurate
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Recent Examples of by and large
Electricity costs less, by and large, when it’s provided by public rather than private companies.
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Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
21 June 2026
Attorneys have said those relationships are by and large unethical, but also rare.
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Andrew Graham,
Sacbee.com,
18 June 2026
In the scientific community, there are a few outliers, but by and large, there’s a pretty universal agreement among scientists that the climate crisis is real and important.
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Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
16 June 2026
And so, by and large, people – who stayed despite the temporary change in plans – watched the game on their phones.
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Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
14 June 2026
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Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
21 June 2026
Attorneys have said those relationships are by and large unethical, but also rare.
—
Andrew Graham,
Sacbee.com,
18 June 2026
In the scientific community, there are a few outliers, but by and large, there’s a pretty universal agreement among scientists that the climate crisis is real and important.
—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
16 June 2026
And so, by and large, people – who stayed despite the temporary change in plans – watched the game on their phones.
—
Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
14 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for by and large
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Plagued by criticism and scandal, it was eventually dissolved by Congress and replaced by a new commission that decided to mostly fund community celebrations.
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The jurors mostly determine the truth except when there is no truth, as with the nonexistent hot-dog contest or gift competition.
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The maintenance cycle appears to be driven mainly by univoltine Aedes species, mosquitoes that produce a single brood per year.
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Ernest Shackleton, an Irish explorer, is remembered mainly for the 1914 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
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Fundstrat said the higher target was driven primarily by improving earnings expectations rather than richer valuations.
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Where to watch the Special Olympics The Special Olympics are taking place in Minnesota, primarily in and around the Twin Cities, through June 26.
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Advertisement Sea Rangers restore seagrass chiefly in the Dutch Eastern Scheldt and French Étang de Berre.
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Larson has clashed chiefly with Bronin — rather than his other two opponents — during the campaign.
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Catholicism was largely presented as favorable; Jehovah’s Witnesses, not so much.
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Austria had one good look — a header that just missed — but largely been kept at bay.
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American barbecue has always been a unique mixture of cultures, predominantly Black, indigenous and European influences.
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No mandate states, predominantly centered around the South, had lower COVID case rates initially, then saw more spread over the summer, patterns that remained consistent over several years.
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This new book is basically a condensation and a dumbing down of those ideas.
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But the total tally obscures how there were basically two types of Davis residents, those living close to the project and those living elsewhere in town.
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Oppenheimer’s note was principally focused, fitting for a global strategist, on how equity returns will be reshaped in a new regime.
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The laser targeted one of three ground stations, principally NASA's White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Table Mountain Facility in California, with a third, experimental ground station at the Australian National University's Mount Stromlo Observatory.
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“By and large.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/by%20and%20large. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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