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"Basically, ...."
Gah. Went to school with somebody who started most sentences that way. In a conversation, it meant "OK, you've all been jabbering about this but here's the real meaning of it all".
Can be worse: I know one guy who would actually say "Yadda, yadda, yadda" after somebody else had finished talking and then say his piece.
"Basically, ...."