virtually

[vir·tu·al·ly]

Use the adjective virtually to mean almost. If your economics homework is nearly complete, it is virtually done.

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In a virtual manner; in efficacy or effect only, and not actually; to all intents and purposes; practically.

Adverb

Adverb
(intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration; "our eyes were literally pinned to TV during the Gulf war"

Adverb
in essence or effect but not in fact; "the strike virtually paralyzed the city"; "I''m virtually broke"


adv.
In a virtual manner; in efficacy or effect only, and not actually; to all intents and purposes; practically.


Virtually

Vir"tu*al*ly , adv. In a virtual manner; in efficacy or effect only, and not actually; to all intents and purposes; practically.

In a virtual manner; in efficacy or effect only, and not actually; to all intents and purposes; practically.

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Usage Examples

But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.

As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it.

Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders.

Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.

But I can only take so much TV, because there is so much advice. I find people will preach about virtually anything - your diet, how to live your life, how to improve your golf. The lot. I have always had a thing against the Mister Know-It-Alls.

A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.

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Other Usage Examples

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.

At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories... and that requires virtually no technology.

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