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[ adverb ] for the most part

Examples

"he is mainly interested in butterflies"

Used in print

(William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)

For it is primarily in community that we know and experience spirit .

(Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)

Both are primarily concerned with the uses that can be made of the material that the collector has found .

(Frank Oppenheimer, "Science and Fear-- A Discussion...)

We , in our country , think_of war as an external threat which , if it occurs , will not be primarily of our own doing .

(Handbook of Federal Aids to Communities. U.S. Dep...)

The credit provdied by the first two services in the system outlined above is primarily for general agricultural purposes .

(Jay C. Harris and John R. Van Wazer, "Detergent...)

These widely advertised products , which are used primarily for washing clothes , are based on high-sudsing , synthetic organic actives ( sodium alkylbenzenesulfonates ) and contain up_to 50 % by weight of sodium_tripolyphosphate or a mixture of sodium_tripolyphosphate and tetrasodium_pyrophosphate .

Related terms

chief chief primary chief primary

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[ adverb ] of primary import

Examples

"this is primarily a question of economics" "it was in the first place a local matter"

Related terms

secondarily primary primary

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