How to Use to a certain extent in a Sentence
to a certain extent
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This is true to a certain extent, as has been found in flowers.
—Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
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And look, what else is there at the moment, to a certain extent?
—Ben Smith, semafor.com, 14 Feb. 2026
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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
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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
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Isn’t anyone who has to live their life publicly to a certain extent?
—Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
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These were people that already bought in, at least to a certain extent.
—Katie Drummond, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2025
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Ideas and, to a certain extent, data will still flow across borders.
—Rana Foroohar, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2022
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People relate to them because most of us feel the same way, to a certain extent.
—Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2022
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And, to a certain extent, what harm is there in playing with emotion and having fun?
—The Indianapolis Star, 20 Jan. 2023
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And with that, the family of those players feel it, to a certain extent, too.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 8 Sep. 2025
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Scirea’s class on the ball, to a certain extent, made up for Antognoni’s absence.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
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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
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So to a certain extent what people are seeing now isn't really new.
—Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2024
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But to a certain extent, schools need to rely on students having good judgment.
—Jennifer Conrad, WIRED, 1 Sep. 2022
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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
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That wasn't the problem, though, as players are always allowed to do that to a certain extent.
—Andrew Wright, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
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Watson brash, sort of firing on all cylinders, chaotic to a certain extent.
—Deborah Unger, Scientific American, 5 Nov. 2025
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Their frustration is born to a certain extent of false perceptions.
—Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 7 July 2024
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A lot of filming is pretty repetitive and mundane to a certain extent.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2024
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That’s why the book is really, to a certain extent, a work of philosophy.
—Sean Illing, Vox, 1 Feb. 2025
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West Germany’s players embraced that billing — to a certain extent.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
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And so, to a certain extent, the lines blurred sometimes between ourselves and our characters.
—Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
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But to a certain extent, the tech industry writ large depends on futurism.
—WIRED, 25 Nov. 2021
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This is admissible to a certain extent, but not in its entirety.
—Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 10 May 2025
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Independent journalism, to a certain extent, is a test of that luck.
—Andy Meek, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
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Everything is rendered through subjective point of view, to a certain extent.
—Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
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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
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House Rule 26 says that people who disrupt a meeting to a certain extent can be removed.
—Idaho Statesman, 24 Feb. 2026
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Trocheck indicated he’s been kept informed about what’s brewing, but only to a certain extent.
—Vincent Z. Mercogliano, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2026
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There is a duality in that sense, being visible but only to a certain extent.
—Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 18 Feb. 2025
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