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• The whole movie feels like a metaphor for you and your career to a certain extent.
  — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024
• This is true to a certain extent, as has been found in flowers.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
• Bitter coffee can be fixed to a certain extent by adding a dash of salt to your brew.
  — Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2023
• People relate to them because most of us feel the same way, to a certain extent.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2022
• Isn’t anyone who has to live their life publicly to a certain extent?
  — Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
• These were people that already bought in, at least to a certain extent.
  — Katie Drummond, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2025
• There’s a sense of theater which the public lives off and needs to a certain extent, to have referents.
  — Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
• And, to a certain extent, what harm is there in playing with emotion and having fun?
  — The Indianapolis Star, 20 Jan. 2023
• Ideas and, to a certain extent, data will still flow across borders.
  — Rana Foroohar, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2022
• China has done this to a certain extent in the past to make sure there are markets for its factories.
  — Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 4 Apr. 2025
• Salsa is the music that narrated the direct action of the Young Lords and to a certain extent the Black Panthers.
  — Damaly Gonzalez, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023
• Any good headphones already do this to a certain extent.
  — New Atlas, 1 Apr. 2025
• Clarke: That’s what’s so interesting about Alice’s, and Kat’s to a certain extent, presence in the ’70s.
  — Megan Vick, Variety, 4 Jan. 2025
• That’s why the book is really, to a certain extent, a work of philosophy.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 1 Feb. 2025
• But to a certain extent, schools need to rely on students having good judgment.
  — Jennifer Conrad, WIRED, 1 Sep. 2022
• In that sense, Trump's willingness to talk with Putin legitimizes him to a certain extent, or at least is an attempt to change the narrative.
  — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
• So to a certain extent what people are seeing now isn't really new.
  — Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2024
• A lot of filming is pretty repetitive and mundane to a certain extent.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2024
• But to a certain extent, the tech industry writ large depends on futurism.
  — WIRED, 25 Nov. 2021
• Yes, there are trial-and-error costs, and bouncing ideas off each other is necessary to a certain extent.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
• Their frustration is born to a certain extent of false perceptions.
  — Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 7 July 2024
• Decline may be inevitable to a certain extent, but with many more shows like this one, and even long-time viewers will only bother finding out who won via email.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 Sep. 2024
• And Russia and China are still, to a certain extent, propping up the junta with military support.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
• In Blink Twice, and to a certain extent, playing Whitney Houston, those are characters that are holding in their emotions and this felt like the opposite of that.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 10 Mar. 2025
• Everything is a little more relaxed to a certain extent.
  — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2024
• By contrast, Arsenal have lifted nine meaningful trophies in the 2000s and, to a certain extent, are treading a worn path.
  — George Caulkin, The Athletic, 5 Feb. 2025
• Though what exactly happened remains to a certain extent unclear, the fact is there was no concert the following evening.
  — Ana Leorne, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2024
• Ichabod Crane, to a certain extent.
  — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 15 Nov. 2025
• Watson brash, sort of firing on all cylinders, chaotic to a certain extent.
  — Deborah Unger, Scientific American, 5 Nov. 2025
• Scirea’s class on the ball, to a certain extent, made up for Antognoni’s absence.
  — Michael Cox, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025