largely

IPA: ɫˈɑrdʒɫi

adverb

  • In a widespread or large manner.
  • For the most part; mainly or chiefly.
  • On a large scale; amply.
  • (obsolete) Fully, at great length.
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Examples of "largely" in Sentences

  • Now the term largely refers to identity thieves who go through trash to get personal information like credit-card numbers.
  • Pancho Segura, the savvy Ecuadorian who made his name largely on the barnstorming professional circuit, coached Jimmy Connors.
  • Church groups were upset at Beck's use of Christian imagery and Christmas as a way to disseminate what they call his largely hateful message.
  • International observers confirmed some flaws, but said they were not sufficient to affect the outcome of the vote, which they called largely free and fair.
  • South Africa on Tuesday welcomed what it described as the largely peaceful nature of the Zimbabwean parliamentary elections, but reserved final judgment on whether the poll had been free and fair.
  • Last week, the head of the intergovernmental Maine Indian Tribal-State Commission, Paul Bisulca, said he would not serve another term largely because of frustrations over the state's failure to address issues important to the tribes.
  • At the core of this discourse is a billion-dollar industry of human smuggling no longer controlled by the "coyote," a term largely reserved for the lone pirate paid by a desperate migrant to navigate the dangerous wasteland between the U.S. and Mexico.
  • "Mnml" (where did the vowel-less spelling originate, anyway?) may have initially been intended to indicate a certain strain of techno that favored staccato, whittled-down sounds and a general refusal of melody or songform, but as a variety of approaches inspired by minimalism coalesced into a series of tropes, and those tropes themselves came to signify "mnml," the term largely became severed from its original, literal meaning, as though through a process of substition.

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