in a sense

They rose together, in a sense: the brand, up the hard-seltzer sales charts; the election-denier, in popularity with the conservative young males he’d need to return to the White House.

"We're in a sense building on that idea, and saying that even in the simplest cases, aspects of language that children already know, in this case an understanding of focus, help them grasp the meanings of unknown words."

I mean, in a sense, be careful what you wish for.

In a sense, they’re just pretending to be old.

Political discussions were, in a sense, the soundtrack to his career.