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Very important or urgent
all-important
at all costsidiom
be a matter of life and/or deathidiom
cardinally
chief
imperative
last
last but not leastidiom
leading
life-altering
life-and-death
overriding
primacy
primary
prime
prior
prized
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principally | American Dictionary

principally
adverb[ not gradable ]
us/ˈprɪn·sə·pli/
more than anything or anyone else; mainly:
The advertising campaign is aimed principally at women.

Examples of principally

principally
Principally, the participants took longer than anticipated to make their choices.
Her methodology is qualitative documentary analysis, drawing principally on municipal reports and committee minutes, and also some voluntary sector records.
The aim of initial investigations therefore is to identify the group of infants at greatest risk - principally boys with urethral valves or severe primary reflux.
Where residents had previously been principally producers for the national and global economy, they are now also its major consumers.
While some legal restraints on labour may exist, liberalized labour markets are underpinned principally by the electoral dominance of pro-neoliberal parties.
Such a spatial association is analogous to epiphyte ant-gardens in which the plants grow principally on arboreal ant nests.
These collaterals arborized principally in the anterior median and anterior ventral thalamic nuclei.
This forest fragment has been isolated from neighbouring areas of forest for more than 20 y, principally by areas of cattle pasture.
What interests me principally is how and to what extent these signifiers of redemption take a musical form.
They find the relative power differences between nurses and physicians (grounded principally in issues of gender) to have significant ethical import.
In essence, positivism depends principally on being able to challenge predictions set up as hypotheses and on attempting to falsify them.
It should apply principally to political and ideological matters; other dimensions of social life - economy, culture, etc. - should be given a broader margin of autonomy.
Patients, however, may assess the value of an outcome principally by the effect it will have on the quality of their lives.
Principally, this ideal is at variance with the heterogeneity of the selected urban cases.
These two systems were developed principally for species living under temperate climates.
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