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UK
/pɹˈɪnsɪpəli/
]
[ US /ˈpɹɪnsɪpɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹɪnsɪpɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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for the most part
he is mainly interested in butterflies
How To Use principally In A Sentence
- The patient drank a good deal of water during the whole of the treatment, ate very little and only light food, principally water-soup or panada, and gruel, and kept in bed almost entirely the first ten or twelve days. Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms
- Boschi, who trained with Passignano in the late 1580s, is known today principally to specialists, but he enjoyed a considerable degree of popularity in the early seicento.
- Although she enjoys the aesthetic value of wild flowers, her reason for encouraging their widespread growth is principally scientific.
- The second-generation antihistamines were developed principally to avoid sedative actions.
- Essentially, the more than $1 trillion that we have spent on these two wars thus far is money that we have borrowed principally from the Chinese, the Japanese and countries out in the Persian Gulf. Op-Ed: Burdens Of War Unevenly Shared In U.S.
- _ What you call epigram gives life and spirit to grave works, and seems principally wanted to relieve a long poem. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
- Paracelsus directs us, in the indagation of colours, to have an eye principally upon salts.
- I was principally responsible for those studies. Times, Sunday Times
- Then you achieve consensus that the illegal traffic in marijuana, cocaine and heroin, principally, creates its own trillion-dollar economy.
- Newton, too, chose to work principally in the more traditional field of planetary astronomy.