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Even so, some high-earners need to be moved on and, if Newcastle can generate decent cash from player sales, for example by selling Longstaff, then that can further fuel a much-needed, and in some senses overdue, rebuild.
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Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 17 Feb. 2025
Getting the judiciary, in some senses, to sign off on the fundamentals of the Hindu nationalist imagination.
—Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2024
That is exactly the situation, in some senses, that the Macomber Court was concerned about.
—Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
Her character in the latter, the vivacious, guileless, scene-stealing Helen, with her impeccable comic timing and wardrobe of glittering frocks, is, in some senses, a younger, sweeter, more naïve spiritual sister to the steely Elspeth.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 1 Dec. 2023
Scott: So the advent of plastic could be good for the environment in some senses, just by reducing our reliance on certain animal products like tortoise shell and rhinoceros horn, but obviously ushered in use that’s actively harmful to the environment.
—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 16 May 2023
In contrast to such provocateurs as Lars von Trier or Nicolas Winding Refn, who bracket their cinematic endurance tests in compulsory irony, Cronenberg is in some senses a peculiarly earnest filmmaker.
—Adam Nayman, The New Yorker, 3 June 2022
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Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 17 Feb. 2025
Getting the judiciary, in some senses, to sign off on the fundamentals of the Hindu nationalist imagination.
—Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2024
That is exactly the situation, in some senses, that the Macomber Court was concerned about.
—Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
Her character in the latter, the vivacious, guileless, scene-stealing Helen, with her impeccable comic timing and wardrobe of glittering frocks, is, in some senses, a younger, sweeter, more naïve spiritual sister to the steely Elspeth.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 1 Dec. 2023
Scott: So the advent of plastic could be good for the environment in some senses, just by reducing our reliance on certain animal products like tortoise shell and rhinoceros horn, but obviously ushered in use that’s actively harmful to the environment.
—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 16 May 2023
In contrast to such provocateurs as Lars von Trier or Nicolas Winding Refn, who bracket their cinematic endurance tests in compulsory irony, Cronenberg is in some senses a peculiarly earnest filmmaker.
—Adam Nayman, The New Yorker, 3 June 2022
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“In some senses.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20some%20senses. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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