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View definitions for in a sense

in a sense

adverb as in theoretically

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Alma was always someone who lived a life of the mind and lived a life of many machinations, and, therefore, was calculating and precise, and also deeply contradictory and steeped in a sense of self-denialism.

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In a sense, both men are right.

In a sense, Penn and Teller are a throwback to an era when the team was greater than the individual performer.

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In a sense both tragic and surreal, she lived on.

“Israel has gone over the top because it has been allowed to do so by the West. Its friends were not very friendly in a sense, because they didn’t stop it from committing suicide in the long term,” she said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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