as in essence
the central part or aspect of something under consideration
why don't we stop talking around it and get to the bottom line
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as in logical
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Recent Examples of bottom line
Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 3 June 2025
In its fiscal third quarter , Microsoft beat on the top and bottom lines, but the software giant also saw its Azure revenue grow 33%, with 16 points of this growth associated with artificial intelligence.
—Brian Evans, CNBC, 3 June 2025
So many people care about the bottom line and winning.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2025
Target cited tariffs as just one to a series of factors impacting the company’s bottom line, including customer boycotts over their rollback of DEI policies and general consumer confidence.
—Solcyré Burga, Time, 3 June 2025
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Noun
That, in turn, frees up either the Aleksander Barkov line (with Evan Rodrigues and Sam Reinhart) or the Sam Bennett line (with Carter Verhaeghe and Matthew Tkachuk) to go against one of the Oilers’ bottom lines.
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—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 3 June 2025
In its fiscal third quarter , Microsoft beat on the top and bottom lines, but the software giant also saw its Azure revenue grow 33%, with 16 points of this growth associated with artificial intelligence.
—Brian Evans, CNBC, 3 June 2025
So many people care about the bottom line and winning.
—Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 3 June 2025
Target cited tariffs as just one to a series of factors impacting the company’s bottom line, including customer boycotts over their rollback of DEI policies and general consumer confidence.
—Solcyré Burga, Time, 3 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bottom line
Noun
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That really captured the essence of the dark ages and the medieval world.—
Joshua Lamb,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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Quotable Time is of the essence for these students.—
Daniel Wine,
CNN Money,
3 June 2025
Adjective
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Even with Bailey singing her lovestruck heart out, Rob Marshall's redo doesn't make the same refreshing splash as the 1989 animated classic but gets points for trying with a more logical narrative.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
26 May 2025
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Therefore, the logical starting point might be to first to prop this thing at least back up to respectability.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
24 May 2025
Noun
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Targeted Treatment for Inherited Disease in Infants More tools than ever before are available to address the root cause when a concerning genetic change is detected.—
William A. Haseltine,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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One of the common root causes is that many of us instinctively fill every available surface, from drawers to shelves, and cabinets to closets.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 June 2025
Adjective
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And, of course, doing all these things in the presence of clients just shows a complete lack of rational thought.—
Joe Cermele,
Outdoor Life,
29 May 2025
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This is a state where each person settles on a strategy that feels rational given everyone else’s, even if the group as a whole is stuck in mediocrity.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
23 May 2025
Noun
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Bitcoin’s Code Remains Decentralized, But The Politics Are Shifting Despite growing political entanglements, Bitcoin’s core code has not changed.—
Becca Bratcher,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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None of the league’s top 25 players by Instagram followers—including Russell Westbrook, Kevin Durant and James Harden, three core members of OKC’s last Finals team in 2012—made deep playoff runs this spring.—
Jacob Feldman,
Sportico.com,
4 June 2025
Adjective
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Image Thompson has a particular genius for unsentimental depictions of blue-collar American life and its competing pressures, loyalties and traumas.—
Sam Thielman,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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John’s refreshingly unsentimental vocal delivery is persuasively performed in the video by Robert Downey Jr.—
Shana Naomi Krochmal,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 2025
Noun
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These young people offer me their time and their hearts on some level.—
Brande Victorian,
HollywoodReporter,
29 May 2025
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Pregnant women are at high risk for severe disease and studies show that the likelihood of miscarriage, stillbirth and pregnancy complications like preeclampsia, blood clots, heart and kidney damage and hypertension are much higher among women who develop COVID-19 during pregnancy.—
Karen Weintraub,
USA Today,
29 May 2025
Adjective
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Darcy goes running after Elizabeth in the rain…and then proposes to her in quite a clumsy and unromantic way?—
Marley Marius,
Vogue,
25 Mar. 2025
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Unforgiven recasts the genre as a pitiless, almost pathologically unromantic realm populated by twits hoping to make their name and aged gunslingers who have to make peace with their bad pasts.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Bottom line.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bottom%20line. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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