How to Use in substance in a Sentence

in substance

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• His research found that social media usage can mirror patterns seen in substance abuse.
  — Maya Blackstone, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2026
• Oversight is being formally claimed by boards that, by their own admission, lack the fluency required to exercise it in substance.
  — Amer Al Ahbabi, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
• The Securities and Exchange Commission’s subsequent order was not, in substance, a finding about a software bug.
  — Amer Al Ahbabi, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
• In Tucson, instead of arresting people for illicit drug use or related crimes such as trespassing, officers may encourage those people to enroll in substance abuse treatment and give them rides to treatment providers.
  — Josephine Korchmaros, The Conversation, 13 Sep. 2023
• However, modern environments allow people to manufacture or amplify any positive signal (virtue signalling is the common term associated with cheap and fake signalling of virtues that are just meaningless or fake in substance).
  — Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
• For one, what South Korea is calling a policy shift is largely rhetorical and little different in substance from the previous approach, says KIDA's Lee Ho-ryung.
  — Se Eun Gong, NPR, 3 Aug. 2026