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in a sense

ADVERB
theoretically
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WEAK
by trial and error


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"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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2026

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 • Jan. 15, 2026

Some bacteria are only harmful to us when they make exotoxins, and they only do this when they are, in a sense, diseased themselves.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas