as in essence
the central part or aspect of something under consideration
why don't we stop talking around it and get to the bottom line
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as in logical
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Recent Examples of bottom line
Beth C. Caldwell, The Conversation, 3 Apr. 2025
Milligan is networking across to tell the stories that Hollywood might be leaving behind on their quest towards the bottom line.
—Keyaira Boone, Essence, 3 Apr. 2025
Goldman Sachs’ investment banking business is key to its bottom line.
—Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 3 Apr. 2025
The bottom line: There is a lot of uncertainty about what's going to happen.
—Sareen Habeshian, Axios, 21 Mar. 2025
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Noun
The bottom line: While many people in gangs have tattoos that demonstrate their membership, many people who have absolutely no gang ties also get similar tattoos.
—Beth C. Caldwell, The Conversation, 3 Apr. 2025
Milligan is networking across to tell the stories that Hollywood might be leaving behind on their quest towards the bottom line.
—Keyaira Boone, Essence, 3 Apr. 2025
Goldman Sachs’ investment banking business is key to its bottom line.
—Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 3 Apr. 2025
The bottom line: There is a lot of uncertainty about what's going to happen.
—Sareen Habeshian, Axios, 21 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bottom line
Noun
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That, in essence, is Thibodeau’s basketball religion: Selfless basketball rooted in read-and-react execution.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
6 Apr. 2025
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The play is, in essence, a pretty much verbatim retelling of the film, which is both a strength and a weakness.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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There are logical, though debatable, arguments that the settlement paying male athletes more in damages and permitting colleges to pay male athletes more going forward is problematic under Title IX.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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When fans are incorrectly being told how much worse the game is today versus the 1990s and 2000s … that doesn’t seem to be a logical way of boosting viewership.—
Shane Young,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Officials haven't announced a probable root cause for the launch failure in March.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
3 Apr. 2025
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He was raised in Boston Both Ivery and Pompeo have Boston roots.—
Maggie Kreienberg,
People.com,
3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Rajula Srivastava, for contributions in harmonic analysis and analytic number theory, including contributions to the problem of counting rational points near smooth manifolds.—
Alex Cramer,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Apr. 2025
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There is no rational analysis that would lead one to the conclusion that a President would single-handedly decide to blow up a century’s worth of globalization on a chilly Wednesday afternoon in April.—
Susan B. Glasser,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2025
Noun
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They were separated from one another for the vast majority of the three films rather than given the kinds of great adventures and bonding moments that the original trilogy gave its core trio, and that led to much less compelling camaraderie and characters.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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No matter how someone is playing Minecraft, the core appeal is in its infinite freedom.—
Issy van der Velde,
Rolling Stone,
5 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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There’s a gentle, unsentimental warmth to this novel that feels like a balm in times like these.—
Constance Grady,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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But an unsentimental assessment of the regional landscape offers some sense of how Trump could proceed.—
Suzanne Maloney,
Foreign Affairs,
10 Dec. 2024
Noun
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He’s done so much for the organization, given his heart and soul to it and building a culture that’s respected.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
10 Apr. 2025
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Madison Square Garden buzzed with anticipation, hearts warmed by nostalgia.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Darcy goes running after Elizabeth in the rain…and then proposes to her in quite a clumsy and unromantic way?—
Marley Marius,
Vogue,
25 Mar. 2025
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Unforgiven recasts the genre as a pitiless, almost pathologically unromantic realm populated by twits hoping to make their name and aged gunslingers who have to make peace with their bad pasts.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Bottom line.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bottom%20line. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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