How to Use in other words in a Sentence

in other words

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  • The absence, in other words, isn’t a big deal, Canales said.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 29 May 2024
  • Like a guy who hadn’t played a snap all summer, in other words.
    Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Or in other words: How to not turn into a popsicle on the slopes.
    David Moses, Travel + Leisure, 16 Jan. 2024
  • This interview was make or break for Biden, in other words.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2024
  • Most of the returns, in other words, are false positives.
    Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • This, in other words, was a very rough draft of an antibiotic drug.
    Popular Science, 1 Nov. 2023
  • So, in other words, that tiny pimple can take forever to clear up when you're stressed.
    Kara Wahlgren, Seventeen, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Trump’s problems are only going to get worse, in other words.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 16 June 2023
  • The beat goes on, in other words — even if technology helps create it.
    Joe Lynch, Billboard, 25 Apr. 2023
  • There is, in other words, a craft side to Cognac that’s all but hidden from American consumers.
    Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Imagine, in other words, the luckiest journalist in the world.
    Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The West can, in other words, help Russians stop fearing democratization and an end to the war in Ukraine.
    Aleksei Miniailo, Foreign Affairs, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Wolf packs, in other words, are not magic bullets for restoring ecosystems.
    Jim Robbins, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Some of the markets with the lowest supply in 2023, or in other words where homes generally sold the fastest, were in Hartford, Cincinnati and Columbus.
    Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Jan. 2024
  • After about 36 months of President Biden, in other words, people yearn for the halcyon Trump ...
    Rich Lowry, National Review, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Boys will be boys, in other words, and women duplicitous.
    Naveen Kumar, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024
  • But for the purpose of this episode, Chris, Rachel, Kendra, and Inés each had to defend another person’s cookie—in other words, a cookie swap swap.
    The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The new Gaza, in other words, could generate even more Islamist extremism.
    Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Is this an Osage story with white villains, in other words, or a story of white villainy with Osage trappings?
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Or, in other words: Flight attendants, please prepare for takeoff.
    Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 18 Aug. 2023
  • China’s economy, in other words, has grown almost five times faster than India’s.
    Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 4 June 2024
  • Divisions serve, in other words, as a useful guardrail on U.S. and Chinese behavior.
    Dominic Tierney, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The Monday morning film sessions, in other words, showed Rice playing cleaner football.
    Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Holsapple believes that the music was right—in other words, commercially viable—for the time.
    Bill Kopp, SPIN, 6 June 2024
  • Those with at least 10 years of experience — in other words, those with actual track records — still won’t be paid much more than their rookie counterparts.
    Tampa Bay Times Editorial Board, Orlando Sentinel, 21 June 2024
  • But in the days leading up to his death, his heart began to show signs of organ rejection; in other words, his immune system recognized the pig heart as foreign and attacked it.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2023
  • From the outset, in other words, Jobs was clear that part of Apple’s strategy would be to take or imitate ideas, talent, and products from competitors.
    Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The old-time Sicilians would take grapes by the pound or tonnage and field blend them, in other words, sangiovese, merlot, moscato, crush and de-stem all the grapes together and ferment together. ...
    Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2024
  • For many, in other words, a torch song written from the POV of an underappreciated grown-man doll has become the unlikely anthem of the summer.
    Ashley Fetters Maloy, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The group, in other words, continues to earn its reputation as the Kremlin's most dangerous hackers.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2023

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