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chiefly
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Sense: Adverb: mainly
Synonyms:
mainly Collocations, particularly Collocations, principally, primarily Collocations, above all, most importantly, first and foremost, mostly Collocations, largely Collocations, predominantly, for the most part, most often, as a rule, generally speaking, on the whole, in the first instance, first of all, almost entirely, prevailingly

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