Another word for chiefly

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chiefly

modif.

mainly, particularly, in the first place; see principally.

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Moscow is chiefly busy with gossip, he continued.
But the talk in every group was chiefly about the Emperor Alexander.
The foreign trade is not large, and consists chiefly in the exportation of pineapples and other fruit.
He served in the New York legislature (1759-1760), but his political influence was long exerted chiefly through pamphlets and newspaper articles.
The department is served chiefly by the lines of the Northern railway; in addition, the main line of the Eastern railway to Strassburg traverses the extreme south.

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