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in essence
Idioms and Phrases
Basically, by nature, as in He is in essence a very private person or In essence, they were asking the wrong question . This term employs essence in the sense of “intrinsic nature,” a usage dating from the mid-1600s.Example Sentences
That order was, in essence, an attempt to rewrite history on race and gender.
Tariffs, Pancotti said, are a regressive tax that disproportionately impacts lower earners because, in essence, a tariff is a sales tax on imported goods.
That, in essence, explained how the Tideline decided to handle the satire about the fire alarms.
Though brief, it is the type of footage one would expect to see at a memorial service, which, in essence, is what this film was supposed to be.
Perhaps the most vulgar thing that Trump did was to assert that divine intervention, in essence, God, prevented an assassination so that he could make America great again.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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