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broadly speaking

adv. without regard to specific details or exceptions; "he interprets the law broadly" [syn: broadly, loosely, generally] [ant: narrowly]

Usage examples of "broadly speaking".

We can, broadly speaking, infer distant appearances from near ones, but not vice versa.

British governments do, broadly speaking, represent the will of the people, and if we alter our structure from below we shall get the government we need.

He did not have a problem with this, broadly speaking, but it never hurt to understand your employer.

Afraid you'd want to fingerprint her, I believe--very broadly speaking--and her rear end was tender from previous attempts.

His balance fluctuated a good deal, but, broadly speaking, if he had died last year the whole of the money from the sale of land and stock would have gone to his heirs, a matter of eighty or ninety thousand pounds at the inflated prices of the time.