Recent Examples on the WebLil’ Kim was also present, signaling that a party once reserved for New York’s old aristocracy was changing with the times, a shift ushered in to a great extent by Mr. Combs.—Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024 Investing in the grid would pay for itself, to a great extent.—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2010 The 2024 team will hinge to a great extent on that relationship.—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 2 Feb. 2024 Whether authors realize it or not, the gamble is justified to a great extent by copyright.—Alex Reisner, The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2024 This sort of posturing by biologists strikes me as similar to what happens in social science (to a great extent all of what falls under the rubric of sociology seems to be posturing with doctorates).—Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2019 Looking back, a blending of Western rock and Egyptian folk music is carved in Amir’s memories of his childhood and teenage years — a fusion that would eventually shape his own music to a great extent.—Mayya Al Ogaily, Billboard, 9 Jan. 2024 The world of the very rich has changed, and this building has, to a great extent, not.—Curbed, 2 Oct. 2023 The sophisticated intellectual system of Chinese Islam rooted in a wholly indigenous lexicon was to a great extent marginalized, as world normative Islam came to be the standard.—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2010
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