Examples of to a certain extent in a Sentence
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Isn’t anyone who has to live their life publicly to a certain extent?
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Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
So to a certain extent what people are seeing now isn't really new.
—Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2024
Democrats–and, to a certain extent, mainstream economists–bristled at the concept of directing policy toward discrete industries.
—Bymaria Flynn, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2024
That’s always been, to a certain extent, quite true.
—Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 6 Mar. 2024
Everything is a little more relaxed to a certain extent.
—Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2024
Everyone’s story matters and everyone’s work matters, to a certain extent.
—Brian Josephs, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
Today, Alderney runs to a certain extent on tourists, and on the people its lifelong residents still, in their less charitable moments, consider tourists—the wealthy Brits who own vacation homes on the island or move there in old age, bringing their untaxed savings along with them.
—Rebecca Panovka, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
Isn’t this what all romantic comedies are, to a certain extent, about—entering into that space of flirtation with the obstinate other and then engaging in this act of persuasion by which the two of you are in some way remade through an act of criticism?
—Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, 30 Jan. 2024
Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
So to a certain extent what people are seeing now isn't really new.
—Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2024
Democrats–and, to a certain extent, mainstream economists–bristled at the concept of directing policy toward discrete industries.
—Bymaria Flynn, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2024
That’s always been, to a certain extent, quite true.
—Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 6 Mar. 2024
Everything is a little more relaxed to a certain extent.
—Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2024
Everyone’s story matters and everyone’s work matters, to a certain extent.
—Brian Josephs, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
Today, Alderney runs to a certain extent on tourists, and on the people its lifelong residents still, in their less charitable moments, consider tourists—the wealthy Brits who own vacation homes on the island or move there in old age, bringing their untaxed savings along with them.
—Rebecca Panovka, Harper's Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
Isn’t this what all romantic comedies are, to a certain extent, about—entering into that space of flirtation with the obstinate other and then engaging in this act of persuasion by which the two of you are in some way remade through an act of criticism?
—Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, 30 Jan. 2024
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“To a certain extent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/to%20a%20certain%20extent. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.
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