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virtually

[ vur-choo-uh-lee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

virtually

/ ˈvɜːtʃʊəlɪ /

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; virtual, -ly

Saved from the public gallows, Weeks was virtually exiled from the city, and wound up in Mississippi, where he raised a family.

There was virtually no government oversight of safety and operational standards.

After decades of violence, flights to Kisangani are unpredictable and Western tourists are virtually unheard of.

Despite virtually unlimited resources, Team Cosby has been losing the PR war.

In the 1960 campaign between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy, there was virtually no discussion of crime.

He also states that the Audiencia is virtually non-existent, and so there is no high court in which justice may be sought.

This is a conquered city, virtually if not nominally in a state of siege, without assignable period.

The agitation for Tenant-Right in Ireland is destined to fail—in fact, has virtually failed already.

By the beginning of November the theatre of war was virtually transferred from Prussia to Poland.

The king and queen had already been torn from their palaces at Versailles, and were virtually prisoners in the Tuileries.

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