principally

[prin·ci·pal]

For the most part

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In a principal manner; primarily; above all; chiefly; mainly.

Adverb
for the most part; "he is mainly interested in butterflies"


adv.
In a principal manner; primarily; above all; chiefly; mainly.


Principally

Prin"ci*pal*ly , adv. In a principal manner; primarily; above all; chiefly; mainly.

In a principal manner; primarily; above all; chiefly; mainly.

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Usage Examples

It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art.

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

If we're picking people to draw out of their own conscience and experience a 'new' Constitution, we should not look principally for good lawyers. We should look to people who agree with us. When we are in that mode, you realize we have rendered the Constitution useless.

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

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Other Usage Examples

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place.

I worked as a lawyer as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.

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