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[ adverb ] in large part; mainly or chiefly
Examples "These accounts are largely inactive" Used in print (Barry Goldwater, "A Foreign Policy for America"...)One was demonstrably false ; the other , for_the_most_part , true . (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)Other flowers we might gather as we pleased : myrtle and white_violets from beneath the lilacs ; the lilacs themselves , that bloomed so prodigally but for_the_most_part beyond our reach ; snowballs ; hollyhock blossoms that , turned upside_down , make pink petticoated ladies ; and the little , dark_blue larkspur that scattered its seed everywhere . |
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