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chiefly | American Dictionary

chiefly
adverb
us/ˈtʃif·li/
more than for any other reason; mostly; mainly:
Today John-Philip Sousa is known chiefly for his music played by marching bands all over the US.

Examples of chiefly

chiefly
The decades 1950-1980, were characterised by expansion and new arenas, chiefly the home-help services.
It already facilitates the exploitation and valorisation of resources chiefly by posting online the documents arranged in hypermedia productions.
Chiefly they are concerned with what humans do, with economic and social activities, with the inheritance of property, and with other aspects of cultural inheritance.
The discussion on these processes is chiefly from the viewpoint of vortex formation around the two edges and the subsequent development of vortical wakes.
Creative input is constrained chiefly by the social experience of participants.
Based on the percentages of fruit parts in their diets, the three rodents are generally similar and can be considered frugivores, eating chiefly pulp.
In the cases that have come down to us, such rituals appear to have followed similar scripts, and they chiefly concern military leaders.
This enabled him to manipulate the chiefly system by promoting those loyal to him and withholding promotion from those he opposed.
However, these studies chiefly focus on only one aspect of the networks, the trade of commodities.
His prodigious output of writings, chiefly on classical subjects, which during his lifetime commanded a good deal of respect, is rarely read nowadays.
The article argues that, whilst aesthetic influences played a part in this transition, it was chiefly prompted by the sentimentalization of familial ideals.
The statistical increase in life expectancy that goes hand in hand with this pattern is due chiefly to a decline in infant mortality.
The motivation analysis might also indicate the costs of the forthcoming rehabilitation, chiefly within the area of indirect costs.
Over the fiveyear period land-buying households increased their adult labour force chiefly by bringing in a son- or daughter-in-law.
Nor has the schoolmaster been altogether willing to regard his classroom as chiefly an exploration ground for the rambling psychological explorer.
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