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entirely

/ɪnˈtaɪɹli/ adverb B1
  1. To the full or entire extent. · It is entirely up to you where we go, as I’ll be happy with anywhere.· The cake hadn’t entirely been eaten, so some was saved for later.
  2. To the exclusion of others; solely. · I'm entirely to blame.· This part of the park is used entirely by the workers; everyone else will have to go to the other side.
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(Which he certainly did _not_, being made entirely of cardboard.)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 95 · B2
And then she always dresses entirely in white, and that does get monotonous.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 4 · C1
“You talk entirely too much for a little girl.”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 41 · C1
She reads entirely too much--” this to Marilla as the little girls went out--“and I can’t prevent her, for her father aids and abets her.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 82 · C1

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