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He was essentially a simple man.

Great writers, composers, and scientists are essentially quite different from ordinary people.

Essentially, vines and grapes need water, heat, and light.

We are essentially looking for an understudy.

For example, in traditional architecture, stone or brick walls served a structural role, but in a steel-beam building the walls were essentially hung from the internal skeleton of steel beams, which meant that walls and corners no longer needed to be solid but could be opened up in unexpected ways.

That happy situation began to change in the 1980s, due to the increasing frequency of large forest fires that were essentially impossible to extinguish unless rain and low winds combined to help.

Essentially they got lost.

Renaissance artists essentially needed to create a three- dimensional scene on a two-dimensional surface.

So, it had been assumed for a long time that New Guinea, that domesticated plants and animals, the practice of agriculture, generally, had been introduced from Southeast Asia about 3500 years ago, had come south essentially.

Essentially the two countries told fishing vessels, trollers from all other nations, to get out of the cod fishing area.

Structure is essentially the architecture of vegetation, and as in the case of tropical forests, it can be extremely complicated. 

So, such a forest contains essentially four layers of canopy.

In most localities a given species of clam or coral persists essentially unchanged throughout a thick formation of rock, only to be replaced suddenly by a new and different species.

Well, essentially, Hendrix reinvented the electric guitar, in the sense that he created amazing effects and vibrations that changed the sound of rock ‘n’ roll completely.

Locke’s viewpoint essentially was that when humans are born, their minds are like blank slates, that is, we don’t have any kind of knowledge when we are born.

And he theorized, rightly so, that different colors are essentially different wavelengths of light.

Gastroliths make food easier to digest, essentially smashing food up, just as we do when we chew.

The Stone was essentially the dictionary that scholars needed to interpret the meaning of the hieroglyphs.

They accumulate essentially no body fat.

Essentially, the traditional view, a view that’s been prevalent for over 250 years, is that the Romans copied Greek sculptures because they couldn’t create sculpture of their own.

The first season was the flooding, or inundation, when the Nile valley was essentially submerged in water for a few months or so.

The orderly nature of our solar system leads most astronomers to conclude that the planets formed at essentially the same time and from the same material as the Sun.

These were essentially professional associations that provided for the mutual aid and protection of their members, and allowed for the maintenance of professional standards.

It’s essentially, um, an outdoor shopping area, designed just for people on foot, and, uh, well, unlike many other shopping malls that are built on the suburbs nowadays, these pedestrian malls are typically located in the downtown area of the city.

So, essentially, they are rocks.

Someday we may be able to take any cell and keep it alive functioning and reproducing itself essentially forever through the use of telomerase.

A planetarium is essentially a theater with a domelike ceiling onto which a night sky can be projected for any night of the year.

Studies have been done on the reproductive success rates for the birds in both areas, and the result showed surprisingly that the reproductive success was essentially the same in both areas – the preferred and the second choice habitat.

So essentially the same tale could be told in different communities, with certain aspects of the tale adapted to fit the specific community.

Essentially, it was part of a vast desert.