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[ adverb ] usually; as a rule

Examples

"by and large it doesn't rain much here"

Used in print

(Norman Kent, "The Watercolor Art of Roy M. Mason"...)

More_often_than_not I have found easy excuse to leave my own work and stand at a respectable distance where I could watch this man transform raw nature into a composed , not imitative , painting .

(Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)

Of such hidden meanings the patient himself is , more_often_than_not , entirely unaware .

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