fundamentally
The book is essentially an exhortation to religious tolerance.这本书基本上是在劝导宗教宽容。
Although she made intermittent movie appearances, she was essentially a stage actress.她虽然断断续续地在电影中露面，但基本上还是一个舞台演员。
Alison's story is a reminder of how vulnerable women can be in what is still essentially a man's world.
Their new album is essentially a collection of their greatest hits.
They argue from time to time like any other couple but their relationship is essentially a happy one.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Essential or necessary
a man's gotta do what a man's gotta doidiom
baked in
basically
basis
be a question of doing somethingidiom
box ticking
elemental
hang
hang on/upon something
have occasion to do somethingidiom
if need beidiom
if/when push comes to shoveidiom
meat and potatoesidiom
necessary
necessary evil
necessitate
owe
symbiosis
symbiotic
symbiotically

Examples of essentially

essentially
Essentially, its regional identity would become more powerful than its country identity.
Essentially, one must verify that each reduction step preserves equality of morphisms.
In each category the different systems are essentially equivalent.
Schneider 1987 sees gossip as a form of talk that is essentially information giving, with much of that information of a confidential or personal nature.
Essentially the call is for a holistic approach which includes the social dimension and emic perspectives.
Although cross-examination in inquiries is organized in essentially the same way as in trials, there are nevertheless some important differences.
The essentially evolutive character of the new material had to be taken into account.
The traditional baglama remains essentially untouched in the process.
The parser is essentially a cascade of finite state transducers.
Also, the instrument's timbre is essentially constrained by its physical construction, but the performer can often make subtle timbral changes in real time.
In some simple cases, we can determine the number of essentially different computations in a given concurrent program due to different schedules.
The increasing donor push towards demand driven approaches is essentially aimed at pushing these systems towards second generation innovation or the demand pull stage.
The technological production function was essentially an attempt not to go into empirical analysis.
Thus, it essentially eliminates any role for the zero return stocks.
One can show that the results stay essentially the same for this modified loss function.
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