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The federal government is pouring $42.5 billion into funding broadband infrastructure across the country so that all Americans can get online.—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025 The women are warned to be discreet so that no one suspects where the money is coming from.—Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 25 June 2025 Those problems include blocking the street so that garbage trucks and emergency vehicles can’t get through.—Deborah Laverty, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2025 Testing this tool with 48 participants over 6 weeks, the tool helped workers to align their schedules so that teams could plan around rhythms of focus time and interaction time.—Lauren Howe, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for so that
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First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of so that was
before the 12th century
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