how so

idiom

: in what way : why does one think that
"This room looks different." "How so?"

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But Clarence, an angel, shows him how so many lives would be poorer without him. NPR, 15 Nov. 2025 Carol’s missive, of course, is about how so many Honk readers have noticed their connections failing while tooling along the 405, especially near Beach Boulevard on the Huntington Beach-Westminster border. Jim Radcliffe, Oc Register, 31 Oct. 2025 Nor does today’s Wembley feel particularly imposing, thanks to how so many new apartment blocks have been allowed to crowd around it. Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025 Understanding the development of data centers in Loudoun County is fundamental to understanding how so many data centers came to be in Virginia. Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 27 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for how so

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“How so.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/how%20so. Accessed 20 Nov. 2025.

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