mostly

A2Frequent NGSL-2

UK /ˈməʊstli/US /ˈməʊstli/

Meaning

adverb

mainly; generally

“The sauce is mostly cream.”

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“Earth is mostly water.”

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“and uh and PayPal uh and then uh mostly”

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Appears in 2 lessons:Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about (TED 2022)Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture

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