in a sense

Example Sentences

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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

"I said to my coaches and people close to me, it feels no different to Cage Warriors in a sense," he says.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

But in a sense, they already have a leg up because they at least have a job.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 28, 2026

You might as well talk about a “Lexus shortage”—which there is, in a sense, for anyone unwilling to pay $40,000 for a car.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich