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Example sentences for: essentially

How can you use “essentially” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Eszterhas essentially invented the celebrity screenwriter.
This essentially means two things: first, that the copyright holder or holders must grant to the public a free, irrevocable, perpetual license to use, copy, distribute, and make derivative works of their research article, in any medium for any purpose (excepting those that constitute plagiarism or other dishonest acts, of course); and second, that a digital copy must be deposited in an open public archival repository (for example, the US National Library of Medicine's PubMed Central).
Bush's compulsion to smile is essentially southern, but the smile itself is corrupted by other influences (a few possibilities were cited in Chatterbox's previous item) that transform it into a smirk;
While trace amounts were detected due to the sensitivity of PCR amplification, thrombospondin transcripts were essentially absent from breast tissue epithelia obtained from normal and benign specimens, and there were no appreciable levels detected in stromal tissue components.
The two sides in the debate over gay marriage share an assumption that is essentially collectivist.