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in a sense

ADVERB
theoretically
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Antonyms
WEAK
by trial and error


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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

"That's the time period that we are seeing, when small worlds are being cratered with these violent collisions or even being destroyed and reassembled into different objects. It's like looking back in time in a sense, to that violent period of our solar system when it was less than a billion years old."

From Science Daily

In a sense, today feels like the day former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez died in 2013, with people struggling to comprehend what has happened.

From BBC

In a sense, that much is admirable from Slot but he needs to realise sooner rather than later that his side cannot carry on performing the same way.

From BBC