Word Finder - generally

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Popularly or widely.

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It is generally known that the Earth is round.

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As a rule; usually.

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I generally have a walk in the afternoon.

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Without reference to specific details.

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Generally speaking …

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Collectively; as a whole; without omissions.

You are fortunate, for the latter are generally the stronger!

Alex's sister generally had an opinion about everything, so it was no surprise that Katie had one about Lori.

Generally speaking, if something sounded too good to be true, it usually was.

Her schoolwork improved, she was responsible about helping out and generally unobtrusive.

And that fact is driven home by its generally low price in most locations.

Alex didn't like any kind of discord, which generally meant that she shouldn't contest anything he said or did.

Observations on mountain tops generally show high potentials near the ground.

When new technology comes out, we generally understand it in terms of what it displaces.

By early writers the word was generally given as an equivalent of the Linnaean Loxia, but that genus has been found to include many forms not now placed in the same family.

Agriculture is the main industry, generally combined with cattle-raising.

Tail generally long and well clothed with hair.

Statistics like this are generally not rigorously calculated.

In order to relieve the circuit judges the legislature has established by special acts inferior courts, generally with criminal jurisdiction only, in nine counties of the state.

When starting on a journey or changing their mode of life, men capable of reflection are generally in a serious frame of mind.

He referred to the fact that the Emperor Napoleon had resented the demand that he should withdraw his troops from Prussia, especially when that demand became generally known and the dignity of France was thereby offended.

Carmen didn't warm to people instantly, nor was she generally impressed by praise... which was why it came as such a surprise that mere words were such powerful tools.

Generally there is, if possible, a water-supply in the vicinity; sometimes a nuraghe guards a spring, or there may be a well in the nuraghe itself.

With others Balaga bargained, charging twenty-five rubles for a two hours' drive, and rarely drove himself, generally letting his young men do so.

Dinner generally consists of roast chicken, but there is a vegetarian option available consisting of a stuffed mushroom cap.

Even so, he managed to communicate better than the average person, and when he did say something, it was generally well thought out.

However, the duties of archchancellor for Italy were generally discharged by deputy, and after the virtual separation of Italy and Germany, the title alone was retained by the elector.

When he related anything it was generally some old and evidently precious memory of his "Christian" life, as he called his peasant existence.

When he did so and heard the subdued moaning with which Karataev generally lay down at the halting places, and when he smelled the odor emanating from him which was now stronger than before, Pierre moved farther away and did not think about him.

Nicholas has the weakness of never agreeing with anything not generally accepted.

Reservations are generally recommended at the restaurant, and are required for high tea, as everything is freshly made to order.

It seemed an unlikely prospect, but on issues where the children were involved, she was generally correct.

Gerald was easy to talk to and his conversation generally led her in the direction she needed to go.

The old bulls are very generally solitary for a considerable portion of the year, but return to the herds during the pairing season.

The latter are dug up with the tusks; the left one being generally employed in this service, and thus becoming much more worn than its fellow.

The potentials that have to be dealt with are often hundreds and sometimes thousands of volts, and insulation troubles are more serious than is generally appreciated.

The old method of growing mushrooms in ridges out of doors, or on prepared beds either level or sloping from a back wall in sheds or cellars, may generally be adopted with success.

In English churches these stairs generally run up in a small turret in the wall at the west end of the chancel; often this also leads out on to the roof.

It is to her that the Principles of Philosophy were dedicated; and in her alone, according to Descartes, were united those generally separated talents for metaphysics and for mathematics which are so characteristically co-operative in the Cartesian system.

Iulis was the birthplace of the lyric poets Simonides and Bacchylides, the philosophers Prodicus and Ariston, and the physician Erasistratus; the excellence of its laws was so generally recognized that the title of Cean Laws passed into a proverb.

Taking the district generally, the difference between the mean Wales.

In reality the revolutionary movement was not so strong and the government not so weak as was generally supposed.

He won the good-will of his employers by devoting himself to the improvement of their manufacturing business, and he kept his hands clean from the prevalent taint of pecuniary transactions with the nawab of the Carnatic. One fact of some interest is not generally known.

For birds it is chiefly used of geese; and for other animals most generally of sheep and goats.

The growth of the plant is slow, and its durability proportionately great, its death being determined generally by that of the tree on which it has established itself.

From about 1550 onwards the Zimbabwe generally referred to by Portuguese writers was at a spot a little north of the Afur district, not far from the Zambezi.

Among other objects also known by the name of "cat" is the small piece of wood pointed at either end used in the game of tip-cat, and the instrument of punishment, generally known as the "cat o' nine tails."

As to the introduction of domesticated cats into Europe, the opinion is very generally held that tame cats from Egypt were imported at a relatively early date into Etruria by Phoenician traders; and there is decisive evidence that these animals were established in Italy long before the Christian era.

At four or five months they are lovely, as generally they retain their baby whiteness, which contrasts well with their almost black ears, deep-brown markings, and blue eyes."

His extreme impecuniosity made him from the first subservient to the Polish senate and nobles (szlachta), who deprived him of the control of the mint - then one of the most lucrative sources of revenue of the Polish kings - curtailed his prerogative, and generally endeavoured to reduce him to a subordinate position.

They are herbaceous perennials, generally with hairy serrated leaves and handsome flowers.

The proxenus is generally compared to the modern consul or minister resident.

This site of the Prytaneum at Athens cannot be definitely fixed; it is generally supposed that in the course of time several buildings bore the name.

Aisne imports coal, iron, cotton and other raw material and machinery; it exports cereals, live-stock and agricultural products generally, and manufactured goods.

There would then have been less disturbance owing to the breath of the players and heat of the theatres or concert-rooms. It would be a great advantage to get this higher grade generally adopted.

Society is described as honeycombed with crimes and vices; prophets, priests, princes and the people generally are said to practise unblushingly extortion, oppression, murder, falsehood, adultery (xxii.).