adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
broadly/essentially correct (= correct in most ways, but possibly not all )
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All the evidence suggests that the results of his research are essentially correct.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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different
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Genuine collegiality is something essentially different .
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These four basic styles depict essentially different leadership styles.
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Perhaps the relationship between academic staff and student is essentially different so that regulation is required.
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As such, the operation was essentially different from planning which involved prior political judgements about what ought to be achieved.
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Even in this restricted form it is possible to write essentially different programs which are nevertheless semantically equivalent.
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Did I not know that men's and women's natures were essentially different ?
political
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The other diagnoses are essentially political .
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That means it is essentially political in motivation.
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This has always been an essentially political issue, although race has never been far away.
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Because it commended a particular kind of rule as a recipe for effective government, Bodin's theory had been essentially political .
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For the people, against the people Perhaps the greatest puzzle of all, however, is essentially political .
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The problem of specifying the timing and the form of effective state action is essentially political , not economic.
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This essentially political definition of imperialism is not shared by Lenin.
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The reason for this emphasis on the way in which people are labelled is that laws are essentially political products.
similar
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The reasons, consequences and approach taken remain essentially similar , regardless of the type of drug used.
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The analysis was done as described in ref. 49, with minor modifications; mice and rats gave essentially similar results.
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Analogy means that the events being investigated are essentially similar in kind to those of which we ourselves have direct experience.
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The situation in Cramlington is essentially similar .
unchanged
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Labelling indices remained essentially unchanged in those patient who underwent biopsy twice.
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Since then the device has remained essentially unchanged in principle.
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In spite of so many hopes of a new order the old one proved tough enough to survive essentially unchanged .
■ VERB
mean
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Since costs tend to rise inexorably, attempts to stabilize public spending have essentially meant cuts in actual services.
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John Sculley was now in charge of Apple, which essentially meant that he was in charge of Macintosh.
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Taking usage rate as a variable essentially means segmenting on the basis of volume purchased.
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In the down-sizing 1990s, this essentially means providing the glue that will make disparate mainframe, client-server and network systems co-function.
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This last variable is worrying, as it essentially means you have no idea what the scheme's going to cost.
remain
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But however the goals of their lowland neighbours have shifted over time, they have remained essentially predatory.
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But the number of women who die from the disease each year has remained essentially the same.
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The reasons, consequences and approach taken remain essentially similar, regardless of the type of drug used.
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The precise boundaries were often changed, but the location of the battlefield remained essentially the same from beginning to end.
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Labelling indices remained essentially unchanged in those patient who underwent biopsy twice.
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The cost of the network remained essentially flat for the quarter.
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Thus, with certain limited exceptions, rape remains essentially a crime involving violence or the threat of it.
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Some district councils remained essentially reactive, but others actively attacked problems in their neighborhoods.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Essentially , "domicile" is just a legal term for the place where you live.
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Polk clearly states her belief that the world is essentially a good place.
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She's added a few characters and changed some names but essentially this is a true story.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But essentially I was moving away from dead ends more than being drawn toward children.
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But much of what Congress is doing now is essentially meaningless.
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He listens politely, then makes plausible but essentially empty gestures.
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I see art as essentially a luxury.
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It was essentially confined to our division.
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Taking usage rate as a variable essentially means segmenting on the basis of volume purchased.
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The whole argument might be presented as proceeding, essentially , in three main stages.
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What mechanism allows toadstools -- essentially very soft and squashy items -- to push through two inches of asphalt?