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• r  in essence or effect but not in fact
  the strike virtually paralyzed the city
  I'm virtually broke
• r  (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but
  virtually all the parties signed the contract

• From sleepy colonial outpost to prosperous high-tech enclave, Singapore owes its rise to the stern, stubborn lawyer who virtually invented the place.
• Every few weeks, outside the movie theater in virtually any American town in the late 1910s, stood the life-size cardboard figure of a small tramp outfitted in tattered, baggy .
• But in Allerca's mixed-breed (not genetically engineered) cats, the protein is virtually undetectable.

• about
• almost
• most
• nearly
• near
• nigh
• well-nigh

News & Articles

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• Special Report: Syria's Islamists seize control as moderates dither
  By Oliver Holmes and Alexander Dziadosz ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - As the Syrian civil war got under way, a former electrician who calls himself Sheikh Omar built up a brigade of rebel fighters. In two years of struggle against President Bashar al-Assad, they came to number 2,000 men, he said, here in the northern city of Aleppo. Then, virtually overnight, they collapsed. Omar's group, Ghurabaa ...
  June 19, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• A Return To 10 Percent Down Payments
  After virtually disappearing for years, the 10 percent down payment is back.
  June 18, 2013 - Forbes
• Performance Measurement: At the Heart of Performance Management – A New White Paper from Los Angeles CFO Services Firm ...
  Virtually all greater Los Angeles and Southern California business leaders fully embrace the merits of management guru Peter Drucker’s time-honored performance measurement and perf
  June 18, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Mike Beebe in NewsOXY
  There's not a lot of way to get warning to a place where there's virtually no communication,Governor Mike Beebe said in a statement. "Right now we're just trying to find anybody that is still capable of being rescued."
• Frances Fragos Townsend in Guardian Unlimited
  This is about the best he can do,Townsend said of bin Laden. "This is a man on a run, from a cave, who's virtually impotent other than these tapes."
• Peter Ueberroth in FOXNews
  As close as anybody can do in a free society, so far its looking very good,Ueberroth said. "Virtually anybody and everybody is being heard."