How to Use to a great extent in a Sentence

to a great extent

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  • The world of the very rich has changed, and this building has, to a great extent, not.
    Curbed, 2 Oct. 2023
  • But, at the same time, the internet has changed that to a great extent.
    Hazlitt, 19 July 2023
  • Investing in the grid would pay for itself, to a great extent.
    IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2010
  • And to a great extent that’s the point — Charlie thrived in debate.
    Gabriel Nadales, Oc Register, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The rules depend to a great extent on team spirit, but that won’t work in society at large.
    Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Rice’s excellence as a hitter has been obscured to a great extent.
    Tony Blengino, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The 2024 team will hinge to a great extent on that relationship.
    Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The commute is, to a great extent, a modern phenomenon.
    Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2025
  • These also depend to a great extent upon how well the giver knows the taste of the person who will be receiving the gift.
    Lois Fenton, Arkansas Online, 28 Mar. 2021
  • This coincided to a great extent with the emergence of cloud computing.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • Whether authors realize it or not, the gamble is justified to a great extent by copyright.
    Alex Reisner, The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Outdated computer systems were blamed as well as the weather, which did not affect other airlines to a great extent.
    Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Those will be the bullet points that concern Indiana’s players, and to a great extent Woodson.
    Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Mar. 2023
  • So how a finished product tastes depends, to a great extent, on how individual winemakers wield that tool in their toolkit.
    Ellen Bhang, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022
  • That was because newspapers were supported to a great extent by the advertising of department stores.
    Daniel Akst, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Only about 10% of the tournament's logo items will be available online, so to a great extent, the pavilion will be an exclusive place to shop.
    Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2021
  • New Right conservatism was premised to a great extent on the idea that the social fabric was torn to pieces by the tumultuous 1960s.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Inventory management depends on the predictability of supplier lead time to a great extent.
    Alex Koshulko, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Western observers who track the Russian space industry realize the program is deeply troubled, and to a great extent running on the fumes of its past and very real glory.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 17 Dec. 2021
  • At this point in the pandemic, there are two potential forces that could increase the number of reinfections, though experts say there’s not clear evidence of either occurring to a great extent.
    Andrew Joseph, STAT, 8 Apr. 2021
  • This sort of posturing by biologists strikes me as similar to what happens in social science (to a great extent all of what falls under the rubric of sociology seems to be posturing with doctorates).
    Discover Magazine, 20 Nov. 2019
  • The answer would have depended to a great extent on the initiatives of local actors and the competition among them, the developments in neighboring countries, and luck—just as the outcome in Bosnia did.
    Rory Stewart, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2021
  • There’s also something to be said for a show that is, to a great extent, about the mysteries of science, religion, and human existence leaving some of its most tantalizing questions open for interpretation.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 3 July 2024
  • Looking back, a blending of Western rock and Egyptian folk music is carved in Amir’s memories of his childhood and teenage years — a fusion that would eventually shape his own music to a great extent.
    Mayya Al Ogaily, Billboard, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Liu demonstrates abundantly that the Chicago School reading of Smith dominated only briefly, and that Smith scholarship has to a great extent already left it behind.
    Kim Phillips-Fein, The New Republic, 27 Feb. 2023
  • What this means is that the Fabulous Invalid is finally back to its usual semi-predictable, mostly recognizable self now, to a great extent recovered from that unprecedented year spent in cryonic suspension.
    Vulture, 6 Jan. 2023
  • While the broader Indian film industry rebounded to a great extent in 2022, propelled by the success of several big films from India’s south, Hindi cinema still lagged behind.
    Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The sophisticated intellectual system of Chinese Islam rooted in a wholly indigenous lexicon was to a great extent marginalized, as world normative Islam came to be the standard.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2010
  • This has been sparked to a great extent by the recent release of OpenAI’s GPT-5 and the ongoing use of widely popular ChatGPT.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
  • The development of Egyptology was driven to a great extent by national and personal rivalries, and particularly Franco-British competition.
    Ursula Lindsey, The New York Review of Books, 27 Apr. 2021

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