as in so far as
to the degree that
insomuch as one can ever know about these things, their marriage seems solid as a rock
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Recent Examples of insomuch as
Of course, insomuch as a mortgage can liberate anyone.
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Ocean Vuong
june 4,
Literary Hub,
4 June 2025
Are you allowed to tease your experience shooting in the Arctic for Part Two?
Only insomuch as nothing has ever been filmed in the Arctic for a movie of this scale.
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Brian Davids,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 July 2023
But the Department of Defense has relaxed its requirement in recent years, insomuch as football players can defer their military service until their NFL careers are complete.
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Nate Davis,
USA TODAY,
2 Mar. 2023
The future of education in the metaverse shouldn’t be considered a replacement insomuch as an enhancement of in-person learning.
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David Lucatch,
Forbes,
20 May 2022
The poster child for this—insomuch as a 70-something retiree from the oil and gas industry can be a poster child—was a man named Doyle Crenshaw.
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Chris Heath,
The Atlantic,
15 July 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has complicated aviation insomuch as pilots aren’t getting enough opportunities to fly because airlines have grounded planes and scaled back operations due to a slump in demand.
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Alan Levin,
Bloomberg.com,
10 Jan. 2021
Ocean Vuong
june 4,
Literary Hub,
4 June 2025
Are you allowed to tease your experience shooting in the Arctic for Part Two?
Only insomuch as nothing has ever been filmed in the Arctic for a movie of this scale.
—
Brian Davids,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 July 2023
But the Department of Defense has relaxed its requirement in recent years, insomuch as football players can defer their military service until their NFL careers are complete.
—
Nate Davis,
USA TODAY,
2 Mar. 2023
The future of education in the metaverse shouldn’t be considered a replacement insomuch as an enhancement of in-person learning.
—
David Lucatch,
Forbes,
20 May 2022
The poster child for this—insomuch as a 70-something retiree from the oil and gas industry can be a poster child—was a man named Doyle Crenshaw.
—
Chris Heath,
The Atlantic,
15 July 2021
The coronavirus pandemic has complicated aviation insomuch as pilots aren’t getting enough opportunities to fly because airlines have grounded planes and scaled back operations due to a slump in demand.
—
Alan Levin,
Bloomberg.com,
10 Jan. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for insomuch as
Conjunction
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Even Netflix, a specialist in premium video entertainment, has moved into the format, going so far as to tap former MS NOW mainstay Brian Williams in a conversational format.
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Pacala went so far as to offer Mottershead co-authorship, at one point placing his name at the top of the paper.
Conjunction
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Chuy García’s stunt on behalf of his chief of staff has backfired insofar as there are multiple candidates running for the seat in November.
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Hollywood Does Abortion’s biggest issue, insofar as it can even be fairly described as one, is simply the overabundance of worthy topics.
Conjunction
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If anecdotal evidence is anything to go by, the tens of millions of viewers tuning into Fox every day for the soccer spectacle can be lumped into a single body, inasmuch as everybody—as in, like, everybody—seems to dislike Lalas … or at least the version of himself that he’s ginned up for TV.
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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.
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