Almost always
Mainly and almost always are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mainly" instead an adverb phrase "Almost always".
Mainly
Mainly adverb - For the most part.
Almost always and mainly are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Almost always" instead an adverb "Mainly".
Nearby Word: main
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- largely and almost always
- largely and mainly
- habitually and almost always
- habitually and mainly
- customarily and almost always
- customarily and mainly
- primarily and almost always
- primarily and mainly
- chiefly and almost always
- chiefly and mainly
- mostly and almost always
- mostly and mainly
- predominantly and almost always
- predominantly and mainly
Both terms in one sentence
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Guts has these mainly because his remaining eye is almost always in shrunken iris mode and he is almost always either angry or sad.
Source: Dull Eyes of Unhappiness - It's almost always a Fan Fic or history fic, mainly because it's an "easy" form, and it's almost always at least part-comedy, mainly because it would be hard to take this seriously anyway.
Source: Log Fic -
But the word "Yid" is almost always considered offensive in English—though people with a Yiddish-language background (mainly Hasidim) will often use it.
Source: Useful Notes / Judaism
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