as in insofar as
to the degree that
the idea works so far as you've thought it out, but there may be angles you haven't considered
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Recent Examples of so far as
Influence only gets a trend or brand so far as accessibility is driving loyalty.
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Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 22 Sep. 2025
The job reduction would be carried out so far as possible with voluntary departures and buyouts, the company said.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
About 14% of service companies in the New York-Northern New Jersey area have scaled back hiring or plan to do so in the next six months as a result of artificial intelligence but few have laid off employees so far as a result of the burgeoning technology, a new survey shows.
—Paul Davidson, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
City councilor Victor McCarty said securing the land for a future park may be his proudest achievement so far as a public servant.
—Jake Allen, IndyStar, 3 Sep. 2025
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Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 22 Sep. 2025
The job reduction would be carried out so far as possible with voluntary departures and buyouts, the company said.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
About 14% of service companies in the New York-Northern New Jersey area have scaled back hiring or plan to do so in the next six months as a result of artificial intelligence but few have laid off employees so far as a result of the burgeoning technology, a new survey shows.
—Paul Davidson, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
City councilor Victor McCarty said securing the land for a future park may be his proudest achievement so far as a public servant.
—Jake Allen, IndyStar, 3 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for so far as
insofar as
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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
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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
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