as in mainly
for the most part
the weather this month has been mostly mild
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Recent Examples of mostly
Monday, March 31, is expected to be mostly cloudy, with a 10% chance of showers developing overnight.
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Hector Amezcua, Sacbee.com, 30 Mar. 2026
In the 1960s, scientists released the decollate snail to combat the spread of the brown snail, but the brown appears to have mostly won out.
—Joan Morris, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2026
Everything seemed mostly normal, aside from my lingering symptoms and nagging intuition that something was off with my body.
—Jillian Wager, Glamour, 30 Mar. 2026
The trails near his home in Boulder’s foothills were mostly empty on this mid-winter weekday.
—Shay Castle, Denver Post, 30 Mar. 2026
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Hector Amezcua, Sacbee.com, 30 Mar. 2026
In the 1960s, scientists released the decollate snail to combat the spread of the brown snail, but the brown appears to have mostly won out.
—Joan Morris, Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2026
Everything seemed mostly normal, aside from my lingering symptoms and nagging intuition that something was off with my body.
—Jillian Wager, Glamour, 30 Mar. 2026
The trails near his home in Boulder’s foothills were mostly empty on this mid-winter weekday.
—Shay Castle, Denver Post, 30 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mostly
Adverb
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Golden State’s run came mainly from expansion draft selections as players like Burton, Thornton and Zandalasini all shined in bigger roles.—
Nathan Canilao,
Mercury News,
3 Apr. 2026
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The population is increasing, mainly because they were protected (in) 1994.—
Paris Barraza,
USA Today,
3 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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The community Fogo Island Inn sits on Joe Batt’s Arm, one of 11 communities on the island that are powered primarily by a single economic engine—its fishery.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 Apr. 2026
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The sharp rise owes to a cocoa shortage caused primarily by adverse weather and crop disease in West Africa, which accounts for about 70% of the world’s cocoa.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
1 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Control over the strait is now the regime’s greatest source of leverage, and the war’s outcome will depend chiefly on whether Iran still holds sway over it, and thus global energy markets.—
Tom Chivers,
semafor.com,
3 Apr. 2026
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Those who read chiefly for pleasure are more comfortable letting details blur.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Shailin’s relatives in Iran—largely deprived of a voice themselves—told her to publicize their plight.—
Cora Engelbrecht,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
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These reforms, targeted mainly at commercial and industrial buildings in dense downtowns, largely missed the looming crisis in suburban residential areas that were slowly building themselves into a different kind of tinderbox that burned from the outside in.—
Noah Haggerty,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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That’s far longer than Camden Management Partners’ schedule for renovating them into a mix of predominantly apartments with some first-floor commercial space.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
2 Apr. 2026
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In late March, a missile exploded over the predominantly Christian Keserwan region north of Beirut, with debris falling on different areas.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
2 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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The story is principally set early in 1965, on the stark desert island of Qeshm, in the Strait of Hormuz.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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But the job of mayor of a big city like Chicago is principally a management task.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Mar. 2026
Adverb
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Georgia added 1,200 net jobs in January, basically flat from December, according to the report, the first glimpse at how the state labor market is performing this year.—
Amy Wenk,
AJC.com,
2 Apr. 2026
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Architects and other critics of the project had panned the staircase as too large and basically useless since there was no way to enter the ballroom at the top.—
Darlene Superville,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2026
Adverb
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Convenience stores and gas station minju-marts are generally open as well.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
4 Apr. 2026
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The players and coaches feel more at ease, and a comfortable team generally plays better.—
Joe Davidson
April 3,
Sacbee.com,
4 Apr. 2026
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“Mostly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mostly. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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