so that

conjunction

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So much so that the Jets interviewed him last Friday to be their head coach. Matt Schneidman, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025 Last month, the Education Department had reopened the ICR and PAYE plans so that borrowers have additional IDR options to choose from (before that, only IBR was an option as the department had phased out ICR and PAYE). Adam S. Minsky, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025 Two years later, the French luxury titan invited Trump to tour LVMH’s leather goods workshop in rural Alvarado, Texas, so that Trump could tout his administration’s jobs-creation record. Rosemary Feitelberg, WWD, 20 Jan. 2025 So much so that today, at their fall menswear runway show in Milan, the pair tied the knot. José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 18 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for so that 

Word History

First Known Use

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of so that was before the 12th century

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“So that.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/so%20that. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.

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