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in a sense

ADVERB
theoretically
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WEAK
by trial and error


Example Sentences

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That, in a sense, is the ultimate symbol of what's going on.

From BBC

She also was, in a sense, both diplomat and spy.

From Los Angeles Times

“I started off with a great experience with the Packers and didn’t have anything else to compare it to so you don’t, in a sense, take it for granted,” Adams said of participating in the playoffs.

From Los Angeles Times

In a sense, the film is a biography of a property—alive, indignant, eager to speak of its own spirits.

From The Wall Street Journal

The film is, in a sense, a necrology—a catalog of death—that takes a bleak and unsentimental stance on human suffering.

From The Wall Street Journal