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Practically

adverb

Almost; nearly. "He was practically the only guest at the party" , "There was practically no garden at all"

In a practical manner. "A brilliant man but so practically inept that he needed help to cross the road safely"

(degree adverb used before a noun phrase) for all practical purposes but not completely. Synonym: much. "Practically everything in Hinduism is the manifestation of a god"

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... thing," replied the doctor. "Likely enough it will take the place of the great transatlantic plants which require so much room and such enormous machinery. It's practically noiseless. Direct current is sent into the wire through a complicated wire system and generates a high frequency current of tremendous power. I saw it working when it was connected with an apparatus carrying about fifteen ...

— The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice - or, Solving a Wireless Mystery • Allen Chapman

... and power; with the utmost recklessness of equity, honor, and even humanity; deluding the ignorant, corrupting the venal, and intimidating and punishing the conscientious: insomuch that the nominally conceded right or privilege is practically reduced to an inconsiderable proportion of its pre-estimated worth; while aristocratic tyranny has rendered it to many of the most deserving to possess it no better than an inflicted grievance. One ...

— An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance • John Foster

... question of reception being raised, that question was, by vote of the House, laid on the table; as happened this morning in the case of those petitions presented by my colleague (Mr. ADAMS;) the operation of which is, practically, to refuse to receive ...

— Speech of Mr. Cushing, of Massachusetts, on the Right of Petition, • Caleb Cushing

... besides the doctor, and Peter came practically every day. He generally took Jan out after tea, sometimes with the children, sometimes alone. He even went with her to the bank in Elphinstone Circle, so like a bit of Edinburgh, with its solid stone houses, and found that Hugo actually had lodged fifty pounds there ...

— Jan and Her Job • L. Allen Harker

... was practically one long street of time-worn palaces and handsome villas which had once been the summer retreats of the rich Venetians; and I guessed it without being told. I guessed, too, that the owners came no more or seldom; that they ...

— My Friend the Chauffeur • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

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