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Idioms and Phrases
Fundamentally, basically; also, in reality. For example, He may speak somewhat bluntly, but at bottom he's always honest . Charles Dickens used this idiom in Nicholas Nickleby (1838): “He's a good pony at bottom.” [Early 1700s]Example Sentences
Solving specific problems, at bottom, is a matter of logos.
“I do think I am very direct but at bottom, my style reflects the fact that I want to win and the Court to step into the shoes of the party I am representing.”
The chyron at bottom read, “Is Biden’s age now a bigger problem than Trump’s indictments?”
"I remember sitting at bottom of her bed praying don't die," she said.
A diagonal black shadow at bottom right is creeping across the chilly rugged landscape, itself a routine artistic symbol for sacred heights.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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