in a/one sense

idiom

: in one way : from one point of view
In one sense, he was correct.

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That’s the subtle absurdity, besides the obvious one, of trying to kill the color with a box cutter: in a sense, red in Western culture has been offed already. Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025 The overall profile is very fresh and ‘wet’ in a sense, like strolling through a herb garden right after a rain shower. Venus Wong, refinery29.com, 31 Jan. 2025 Insofar as Renaissance writers and architects were imitating manners, or styles, and not nature, all Renaissance writers and architects were, in a sense, Mannerist from the start—without knowing it. Mario Carpo, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025 Wright was only about a year old when Seaver last wore a Mets uniform, yet the two do share a link in a sense with their respective places in team history. Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for in a/one sense 

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“In a/one sense.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/in%20a%2Fone%20sense. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.

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