in a/one sense

idiom

: in one way : from one point of view
In one sense, he was correct.

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Though copyright may be law in one sense, public perception and popular opinion effect how the law is enforced in practice. Time, 5 June 2025 This is all just a roundabout way of saying that Playhouse was, in a sense, music to my ears — a dog whistle that snapped me to attention. Tom Gliatto, People.com, 24 May 2025 So, in a sense, watching the company’s content on demand has changed from HBO Now to HBO Go to HBO Max to Max to HBO Max. James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2025 Indeed, in stark contrast to the incorporeal nature of a digital image, each of Winant’s photographs is, in a sense, a discrete body: a fallible material entity that boasts a hidden physical history and that will compositionally deteriorate over time. Jessica Simmons-Reid, Artforum, 1 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for in a/one sense

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“In a/one sense.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20a%2Fone%20sense. Accessed 16 Jun. 2025.

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