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Recent Examples of that
Adjective
No one, that is, except Todd Penn. Trish Deitch, Variety, 17 Oct. 2025 Byron Berline & Sundance and I’ve known him that long. Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2025 On their already tight $45,000 joint annual income, budgeting for themselves and their five children will become that much harder. Ali Swenson, Twin Cities, 16 Oct. 2025 By contrast, less than 40% of coups that escalate into civil-war levels of violence – that is, resulting in over 1,000 fatalities – succeed. John Joseph Chin, The Conversation, 16 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for that
Recent Examples of Synonyms for that
Adverb
  • Enzalutamide is already approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and listed in National Comprehensive Cancer Network treatment guidelines, so based on the study's results could be easily incorporated into a frontline combo intervention with the common hormone therapy.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2025
  • With 2 ½ minutes to go, the 49ers led by 10, and, unlike so often last season, that margin would prove enough.
    Cam Inman, Mercury News, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Putting further investment toward recycling, by 2030, Eastman intends to allocate 90 percent of its research and development spend tied to Naia textiles on innovations related to sustainability and circularity.
    Sarah Jones, Sourcing Journal, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The production, the rhythm, the message and Langley’s unmistakable voice meld mightily to make this an irresistible track and further cement Langley as one of the genre’s brightest newcomers.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 20 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • At the very least, a major influx of new cast members are bound to shake up the series third season, which will pick after the dramatic killing of a beloved character, the arrest of another, and the breakup between two more.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The King very recently joked about his age during a visit to officially open the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital in Smethwick.
    StyleCaster Editors, StyleCaster, 20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Other credits include playing opposite Nicolas Cage in Between Worlds, starring alongside Hilary Duff and Jonathan Bennett in The Haunting of Sharon Tate, and headlining Lifetime’s Psycho Sister-in-Law.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Although the new commercial space ethos of building satellites fast and cheap has dominated Earth imaging from space for years, deep-space astronomy has so far been headed mostly in the opposite direction — trending toward more complex machines worth billions of dollars.
    Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • The last six decades or so have been an extremely subtle hint, and the rest of us have cracked the code.
    Sean McIndoe, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In extremely dense fog where visibility is near zero, the best course of action is to first turn on your hazard lights, then simply pull into a safe location such as a parking lot of a local business, and stop.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • This capability could be invaluable for aerospace maintenance and other precision tasks.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Informed conclusion here — Whitworth and Fitzpatrick are going to dunk each other in a vat of Skyline Chili, then scream until the cameras cut out.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • While no service can guarantee the complete removal of your data from the internet, a data removal service is really a smart choice.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
  • There was an aspect to the story that really hit my heart hard in Bruno Lacombe’s radical philosophy, which posits that modern humans have lost their essential connection to the primal elements of existence.
    Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The higher the number, the stronger the storm and the farther south the northern lights can be seen.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Teams regularly targeted runners making their way to the farther half of the six-yard box from either side.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025

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“That.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/that. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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