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Russia’s aerial assault on Ukraine has shown that the most surefire way to strike sensitive targets is by overwhelming sophisticated Western air defense systems with cheaper munitions such as drones so that more powerful ballistic missiles can hit their targets, experts say.—Tamara Qiblawi, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025 When possible, carriers may cancel an entire round-trip loop — for example, both Orlando-to-Denver and Denver-to-Orlando — so that an aircraft and crew end up in the correct place to continue later flights.—Josh Rivera, USA Today, 6 Nov. 2025 Most current cancer immunotherapies target proteins or genes, but this new therapy focuses on the sugars on the cell surface, blocking them so that immune cells can find and attack the cancer, according to researchers from Northwestern University in Chicago.—Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2025 Our goal is to inform the public about these new tactics so that readers can protect themselves from fraudsters who prey on their trust.—Christian Orozco, NBC news, 6 Nov. 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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