in a sense
Example Sentences
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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
He has always been congratulatory of me, almost proud of me in a sense.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026
But in a sense, they already have a leg up because they at least have a job.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 28, 2026
That, in a sense, defines the problem: generational labels aren’t just cute tags we can place on someone to blame them for avocado toast.
From Salon • Dec. 19, 2025
His mother was satisfied with the arrangement, and in a sense, she confessed to Eliot as they drove home, she was relieved.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
