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- Sweating profusely day and night, training in the sun, unable to sleep in the heat, virtually every athlete lost a huge amount of weight.
p. 25.7virtually = to almost be so, but not so strictly speaking
- One virtually moved into an air-conditioned theater, buying tickets to movies and sleeping through every showing.
p. 25.9
- The water tins, opened to the downpour, caught virtually nothing.
p. 112.5
- Men were beaten for virtually anything: folding their arms, cleaning their teeth, talking in their sleep, and most often, for not understanding orders issued in Japanese.
p. 149.1
- In many hopeless battles, virtually every Japanese soldier fought to the death.
p. 150.8
- The curious thing about Harris was that while he was tall—six two or three—virtually everyone, including Louie, would remember him as a giant, as tall as six ten.
p. 153.4
- Across the water was Tokyo, still virtually untouched by the war.
p. 171.3
- Virtually every POW believed its destruction had saved them from execution.
p. 232.9 *virtually = almost
Definitions:
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(1)
(virtual as in: virtual organization) to almost be something; or to effectively be something without entirely being it in a traditional sense
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(2)
(virtual as in: computer's virtual world) something simulated by a computer
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)