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• But the new stance doesn't go so far as letting these kinds of weapons be used anywhere else.
  — Jeongyoon Han, NPR, 13 June 2024
• But all of these measures can only go so far, Barth said.
  — Rory Appleton, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Mar. 2024
• But Zoom can only go so far to stretch the industry’s reach.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 20 May 2024
• Some even go so far as to provide a snapshot of their Airbnb rating.
  — Curbed, 28 Nov. 2023
• Some would even go so far as to argue that The Departed deserves the top spot on this list.
  — Nina Derwin, Redbook, 10 Aug. 2023
• On that front line, Ukrainian troops often go so far as to bury their trash to stay hidden from drones.
  — Yurii Shyvala Mauricio Lima, New York Times, 23 July 2023
• Although cat defenders dispute the scale of the numbers, few of them go so far as to deny that cats kill lots of birds.
  — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• Only a handful of our best muffin recipes go so far as to ask you to soften butter.
  — Zoe Denenberg, Bon Appétit, 23 Aug. 2023
• Kotsay wouldn’t go so far as to rule Ruiz out of the series finale against Miami.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 5 May 2024
• But really, my art can only go so far even with that approach.
  — Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 June 2023
• But Jacobs wouldn’t go so far as to say the civilian review boards will be shut down come July 1 when the bill goes into effect.
  — Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2024
• And the question of diversity can only go so far; as is usually the case, the on-the-ground story is more complex.
  — Rachel Ventresca, Fortune, 6 June 2024
• Hardcore drivers go so far as to add force feedback to their seats, with sim setups that can run into the tens of thousands of dollars.
  — WIRED, 19 Nov. 2023
• Even so, Hamby can only go so far in dictating the terms of basinwide cuts.
  — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 20 Nov. 2023
• Layers of injustice and mass killings go so far and so deep into Russia’s history that most of us have lost track.
  — Anna Nemtsova, The Atlantic, 24 Nov. 2023
• The success can only go so far while dams and canals continue to siphon off the river’s formerly cyclical high flows.
  — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
• Editor’s picks There’s a reason why a good gossip sesh can go so far on TikTok.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 22 Sep. 2023
• Essentially, McGill is saying that looking the part can only go so far.
  — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2023
• But vibes only go so far when satisfying answers aren’t forthcoming, and by the end of its first season, the drama has run out of steam.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2024
• The laws go so far as to write the existence of transgender people out of law—to effectively unperson them as a class.
  — Brynn Tannehill, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
• The judges did not go so far as to find that Scott and the other detainees are covered employees but sided with them on several key issues.
  — Madeleine O'Neill, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2024
• But cuts only go so far with a rail system that has fixed costs regardless of whether riders use the system, officials said.
  — Justin George, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
• Sextortion cases rarely go so far in the courts, and this one was especially foreign to Barber.
  — Ari Schneider, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2023
• Some go so far as to argue that the mean high tide line was effectively done away with when the state changed its Constitution in the 1980s, a proposition that hasn’t been tested in court.
  — Brian Amaral, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
• If tech history is any guide, size and scale are solid footholds — but ultimately can only go so far.
  — Mike Isaac, New York Times, 11 July 2023
• The staggering statistics only go so far in conveying the tragedy.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
• Hackers will even go so far as to create malicious websites that appear to be legitimate to fool you.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 15 Dec. 2023
• Bathymetric maps – the ones that show depth beneath the water – can only go so far, especially given much of the data they are based on is outdated.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2024
• Ultimately, a right-to-know law like Prop 65 can only go so far in addressing toxics in products.
  — Robin Dodson, Fortune Well, 2 May 2023
• The prosecution will go so far as to bring in manufacturer Alessandro Pietta from Italy to tell jurors about his quality control measures.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 10 July 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024