in a sense
Example Sentences
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Luckily, millions of years of evolution has perfected this process when it occurs in our skin – we are all living chemistry labs, in a sense.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
"This isn't that surprising in a sense, because that is predicted by geodynamic simulations," Wolf said.
From Science Daily • Apr. 23, 2026
They are safer, in a sense: less vulnerable to factual rebuttal and more deeply rooted in personal experience.
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026
It is near impossible now to genuinely create the first kind, but the process of making “Maddie’s Secret” was in a sense about being the second and striving for the first.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
When a city begins to grow and spread outward, from the edges, the center which was once its glory is in a sense abandoned to time.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
