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
In a two-minute video released earlier this month, Zeldin, wearing a green striped tie, seemed to go so far as to renounce the agency’s foundational purpose.
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Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
The whole thing seemed likely to remain a mystery so far as the public was concerned.
—Horace R. Hinkley, Outdoor Life, 19 Mar. 2025
But those limits surely do not expand so far as to include private taxation by congressional double delegation.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
Despite the presence of funny guys Jack Black, Steve Zahn, and Paul Rudd, as well as the comical videos released so far as promos for Anaconda, Black says the upcoming film does come with scares.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2025
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Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
The whole thing seemed likely to remain a mystery so far as the public was concerned.
—Horace R. Hinkley, Outdoor Life, 19 Mar. 2025
But those limits surely do not expand so far as to include private taxation by congressional double delegation.
—Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
Despite the presence of funny guys Jack Black, Steve Zahn, and Paul Rudd, as well as the comical videos released so far as promos for Anaconda, Black says the upcoming film does come with scares.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2025
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Lawless Forget the Filler Lip Mask $22 Sephora Plenty of products promise the world insofar as lips go, but this one—founded by Annie Lawless—truly delivers.—
Perrie Samotin,
Glamour,
31 Mar. 2025
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This differs from the previous Rwanda scheme insofar as the latter involved people (in theory) having their applications for asylum processed abroad, while the former will be used (in theory) only for people who have already been rejected.—
Frey Lindsay,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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