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Located in Phoenix’s Arcadia neighborhood, the architect opted to place the home on seven piers so that the couple would be able to see above the surrounding orange trees, which covered the area at the time of construction.—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 8 May 2025 And that’s how coach would say to us, so that’s the truth.—Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2025 For this security reason, many countries, such as the U.K. and Ireland, stopped these programs at the outbreak of the Ukraine war so that Russian nationals could not acquire EU citizenship through these programs.—Alex Ledsom, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025 The very first round of escalation between India and Pakistan has started on a much larger scale than in the last crisis in 2019, so that's a cause for concern.—Steve Inskeep, NPR, 8 May 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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