Both Uses of
virtual
in
First Address to Irish Parliament From a British PM
- We spent virtually every childhood summer holiday up to when the troubles really took hold in Ireland, usually at Rossnowlagh, the Sands House Hotel, I think it was.†
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- Even now, in my constituency of Sedgefield, which at one time had 30 pits or more, all now gone, virtually every community remembers that its roots lie in Irish migration to the mines of Britain.†
Definition:
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(virtual as in: virtual organization) to almost be something; or to effectively be something without entirely being it in a traditional sense