as in so far as
to the degree that
insofar as I know, there are no other complications for obtaining the building permit
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Recent Examples of insofar as
The only fact that matters, insofar as Brady is concerned, is that, together as a coach-quarterback tandem, Belichick and Brady won six Super Bowls.
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Steve Buckley, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
But insofar as that identity was largely and intentionally anchored in whiteness, many of the real stories—just as mythic, just as legendary—went untold or ignored, simply because the heroes didn’t have the right skin color.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
The only criterion for holding Dick’s interest—or really, her own interest, insofar as Dick was her construction—was untrammeled candor.
—Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Ukraine is an ethnocracy insofar as state institutions and the country’s raison d’être are identified with the Ukrainian nation, understood as a community of language, culture, and historical experience.
—John Connelly, The New York Review of Books, 18 Dec. 2025
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Steve Buckley, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
But insofar as that identity was largely and intentionally anchored in whiteness, many of the real stories—just as mythic, just as legendary—went untold or ignored, simply because the heroes didn’t have the right skin color.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
The only criterion for holding Dick’s interest—or really, her own interest, insofar as Dick was her construction—was untrammeled candor.
—Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Ukraine is an ethnocracy insofar as state institutions and the country’s raison d’être are identified with the Ukrainian nation, understood as a community of language, culture, and historical experience.
—John Connelly, The New York Review of Books, 18 Dec. 2025
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Epstein went so far as to help Antonova, a Russian citizen, secure a visa, put her up in his New York apartments, fund her coding classes, and send her wire transfers.—
Jim Edwards,
Fortune,
23 Apr. 2026
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No arrests have been made so far as investigators work to identify suspects.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
22 Apr. 2026
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Literary Hub turned ten this year, which is basically forty in website years (but not 44, thankfully), and inasmuch as it’s been an ugly and convulsive decade in the broader world, it’s been pretty bad for online media, too.—
Jonny Diamond,
Literary Hub,
16 Dec. 2025
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Advertisement What connects Orbán’s targets is not ideology inasmuch as his contempt for their independence.—
David Pressman,
Time,
7 Nov. 2025
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