Today's word is the adverb By and large.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/by%20and%20large

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By and large

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By and large by and large

this expression means on the whole or in general or mostly.

For example, the supply chain, uh, by and large private, that means the supply chain is mostly generally private.

Another example, by and large, most of the students at my school come from extremely conservative families, but there are few very liberal minded like me.

So it means, kids in my school, the pupils, most of them are conservative, but that I feel ones who are liberal minded like me.

Other example, the weather is by and large pleasant for the most of the year with one or two cooler month in the winter. That means the weather is mostly or generally pleasant throughout the year.

By and large, you'll find it very quiet here in August because most people close up their's shops and go on holiday. So it means mostly in the month of August in this area people escape their jobs and travel for holidays. That is the reason why you find this place very quiet.

Louisiana state penitentiary is by and large a unremarkable place to serve time. It's violence has the chair runs. The history is brutal. However, it also manages to Chuck something the inmate's way that most prisons would never dream of. That's a golf course. No joke. LSP is probably the only maximum security on prison to have a custom built golf course.

And that's not all the inmates get the building has its own radio station printing, press TV, studio, and airs strip.

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