Synonyms for essentially
es·sen·tial·ly

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1. basically, fundamentally, essentiallyadverb

   in essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature

   "He is basically dishonest"; "the argument was essentially a technical one"; "for all his bluster he is in essence a shy person"

   Synonyms:
   fundamentally, basically

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1. List of paraphrases for "essentially":

   basically, mainly, primarily, fundamentally, mostly, largely, principally, predominantly, substantially, chiefly, virtually, inherently, practically, broadly

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1. Juliette Kayyem:

   We are essentially at our last line of defense, which is: Can the police stop a shooter from killing more people than he otherwise would have absent this kind of training? that’s going to be our standard of success.

2. Piet Mondrian:

   The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.

3. Francis Egan:

   We have in effect increased the concentration of the fluid so essentially there is more sand and less water, we may still have events reaching the 0.5 limit but hopefully not as many.

4. Josh Laughlin:

   We're spending millions of dollars to restore these incredible river systems, only to watch them being vacuumed up, essentially, by miners.

5. The US:

   This is a step that rationalizes what was essentially an irrational arrangement that we inherited, it was irrational because it created unnecessary and elevated risk to The US forces as they moved in and out of the country on a rotational basis, and it gave us less pay-off for incurring that risk because it disrupted their efficacy and consistency of their work with partners.