How to pronounce basically
Listen to basically in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
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“basically” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 1000 American · 1000 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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So basically, this is the threshold basically.
GAO · watch from 2:25 · hear it here
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association issue basically school board association issue basically the policy school board association issue basically the
Dept of Justice · watch from 25:07 · hear it here
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we basically maybe I guess we're being filmed here we basically basically Xerox the US guidelines
FTC · watch from 178:40 · hear it here
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Seeing basically everything.
NSF · watch from 4:03 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of basically. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.