as far as

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conjunction

: to the extent or degree that

is safe, as far as we know

—often used in expressions like "as far as (something) goes" and "as far as (something) is concerned" to mean "with regard to (something)"

we felt pretty safe as far as the fire was concerned—

Mark Twain

or in expressions like "as far as (someone) is concerned" to mean "in (someone's) opinion"

as far as I'm concerned, it's a mistake

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preposition

: with regard to : concerning

neatly groomed and, as far as clothes, casual looking—

The New York Times

as far as being mentioned in the Ten Commandments, I think it is—

Billy Graham

—chiefly in oral use

Examples of as far as in a Sentence

Preposition as far as a menu for the event, I haven't given it any thought

Recent Examples on the Web

Conjunction

The quake was felt across the island, as far as 200 miles from the epicenter. —

Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2024 Putin is right about one thing: Ukraine’s sovereignty exists only as far as it can be defended from Moscow’s grasp. —

Branislav L. Slantchev, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2024 Other states that favor more liberal access to stem cells have haven’t gone as far as Utah. —

Bymeredith Wadman, science.org, 1 Apr. 2024 Sylvester was the first gay Black pop star who was out of the closet, as far as the public knew. —

Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2024 By 2023 the five-ton, five-person howitzers—which lob 100-pound, 155-millimeter shells as far as 18 miles without rocket-assistance—were among the best and most important big guns in Ukrainian service. —

David Axe, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024 Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic, currently a voting member on the Fed’s rate-setting committee, recently went as far as to suggest the central bank should only cut rates once this year because of the inflationary risks. —

Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024 Interestingly enough, some have gone as far as to suggest that home prices could fall in the aftermath of the National Association of Realtors’ groundbreaking $418 million settlement, which above all made it so commissions could no longer be baked into listings. —

Alena Botros, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2024 Webby also points out that as far as viruses go, influenza can be fairly weak, so pasteurization should remain a strong line of defense. —

Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2024

Preposition

Since then, the bank with the logo of a golden winged eagle swooping across a dark green sky, has expanded dramatically, with branches up and down the state, across the west, and as far as New York. —

Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2023 The massive beach continues on for as far as the eye can see, bordered by flowing grassy dunes and massive cliffs hugging its edges. —

Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 18 Mar. 2023 The Wildcats have never made it as far as the Sweet 16, losing in the second round in 2017 in their only other tournament trip. —

Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 18 Mar. 2023 The chemical, a weed killer, killed animals and vegetation downstream as far as Lake Shasta. —

Jacob Fulton, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023 Lips are sealed as far as deal details go, but Parker is expected to write, produce and direct features in the horror genre. —

Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2023 Far From Home While the La Tène culture seemingly spread to regions as far as England, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria and the Czech Republic, the Celts never lived in Brandenburg. —

Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 15 Mar. 2023 But these worries are – at least as far as large language models are concerned – groundless. —

Nir Eisikovits, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2023

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