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substantially

[ suhb-stan-shuh-lee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

by an ample or considerable amount; quite a lot:
As a professor, my workload is substantially reduced or eliminated during the summer months.
in a basic or essential way; fundamentally:
The new law mandates equal pay for substantially similar work, whether at the same establishment or not.
in a solid or firm way; stoutly or sturdily:
In the far north, homes take more fuel to heat and also have to be built more substantially.
in a corporeal or material way; physically:
The Eucharist makes the very Person of Christ truly, really, and substantially present in the consecrated bread and wine.

The world Carver left was still a hungry one—if substantially less so.

The CDC says that the current numbers on record for the epidemic, 5,843 cases and 2,803 deaths, are “substantially underreported.”

Following the attrition of heavy industry in the 1980s, the income gap across the United Kingdom has grown substantially.

The police department, despite public belief, is substantially upping patrol and investigative measures.

What has changed, substantially and perhaps for the best, is just what a nonmarital birth looks like.

I am prepared to respect the franchise, to give substantially, although not nominally, equality.

From the year 1902 to 1909, the style of their motorcycle remained substantially the same in appearance.

De Rossi and his English editors seem to accept substantially the Romish legend of this celebrated martyr.

The Fatal Dowry in substantially its own proper form does not appear ever to have been acted after Jacobean times.

Upon this little they seemed, according to her answers, to live very comfortably, not to say substantially.

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