in some senses

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: in some ways
In some senses, it was a wasted effort.

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Or is it meant to be seen as, in some senses, in dialogue with some of these other things that are coming out there? Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 9 Jan. 2026 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. Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 17 Feb. 2025 And yet, in some senses, management should be less, rather than more, stressful now. Rory Smith, The Athletic, 24 Dec. 2024 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 In truth, Putin and those old ideologues close to him, such as Patrushev, are becoming in some senses obsolete, their ideas out of step with elite sentiment regarding Ukraine and the West. Tatiana Stanovaya, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 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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