in a sense

Example Sentences

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You have to be almost like a doll, in a sense.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

He has always been congratulatory of me, almost proud of me in a sense.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026

But in a sense, they already have a leg up because they at least have a job.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 28, 2026

All are, in a sense, in their element.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 31, 2025

In the past few years physicists realized that the many competing varieties of string theory are actually, in a sense, the same thing.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife