in some senses

idiom

: in some ways

In some senses, it was a wasted effort.

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Even so, some high-earners need to be moved on and, if Newcastle can generate decent cash from player sales, for example by selling Longstaff, then that can further fuel a much-needed, and in some senses overdue, rebuild. —Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 17 Feb. 2025

Getting the judiciary, in some senses, to sign off on the fundamentals of the Hindu nationalist imagination. —Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2024

That is exactly the situation, in some senses, that the Macomber Court was concerned about. —Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024

Her character in the latter, the vivacious, guileless, scene-stealing Helen, with her impeccable comic timing and wardrobe of glittering frocks, is, in some senses, a younger, sweeter, more naïve spiritual sister to the steely Elspeth. —Radhika Seth, Vogue, 1 Dec. 2023

In truth, Putin and those old ideologues close to him, such as Patrushev, are becoming in some senses obsolete, their ideas out of step with elite sentiment regarding Ukraine and the West. —Tatiana Stanovaya, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023

In contrast to such provocateurs as Lars von Trier or Nicolas Winding Refn, who bracket their cinematic endurance tests in compulsory irony, Cronenberg is in some senses a peculiarly earnest filmmaker. —Adam Nayman, The New Yorker, 3 June 2022

Scott: So the advent of plastic could be good for the environment in some senses, just by reducing our reliance on certain animal products like tortoise shell and rhinoceros horn, but obviously ushered in use that’s actively harmful to the environment. —Quartz Staff, Quartz, 16 May 2023

Much of liberalism’s success arose from a pre-liberal inheritance—the kinds of traditions, institutions, and practices that, in some senses, limited liberals’ worst tendencies. —Patrick J. Deneen, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023

Rhymes for in some senses

• biosciences
• albigenses
• consequences
• inferences
• commences
• condenses
• defences
• defenses
• dispenses
• expenses
• offences
• offenses