How to Use to a certain extent in a Sentence

to a certain extent

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  • The whole movie feels like a metaphor for you and your career to a certain extent.
    Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024
  • This is true to a certain extent, as has been found in flowers.
    Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 14 May 2024
  • Bitter coffee can be fixed to a certain extent by adding a dash of salt to your brew.
    Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2023
  • People relate to them because most of us feel the same way, to a certain extent.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2022
  • Isn’t anyone who has to live their life publicly to a certain extent?
    Alex Zaragoza, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • There’s a sense of theater which the public lives off and needs to a certain extent, to have referents.
    Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
  • And, to a certain extent, what harm is there in playing with emotion and having fun?
    The Indianapolis Star, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Ideas and, to a certain extent, data will still flow across borders.
    Rana Foroohar, Foreign Affairs, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Salsa is the music that narrated the direct action of the Young Lords and to a certain extent the Black Panthers.
    Damaly Gonzalez, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023
  • But to a certain extent, schools need to rely on students having good judgment.
    Jennifer Conrad, WIRED, 1 Sep. 2022
  • So to a certain extent what people are seeing now isn't really new.
    Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2024
  • A lot of filming is pretty repetitive and mundane to a certain extent.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 2024
  • But to a certain extent, the tech industry writ large depends on futurism.
    WIRED, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Yes, there are trial-and-error costs, and bouncing ideas off each other is necessary to a certain extent.
    James Grebey, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2024
  • And Russia and China are still, to a certain extent, propping up the junta with military support.
    Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Everything is a little more relaxed to a certain extent.
    Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Paris will therefore have to rely at least to a certain extent on something uncertain and ethereal: the goodwill of the attendees.
    Sally Jenkins, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
  • And yet, for its geographical distance from the tracks in the States, and to a certain extent from those of Europe, the Saudi show draws a far more eclectic field than either of those two pinnacle events in the States.
    Guy Martin, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Both groups to a certain extent feel unseen, either on the particular campus or, more generally, in the world.
    Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Despite the fact that there are some supplements that may help with erections to a certain extent, supplements are not held to the standards of pharmaceuticals.
    Elizabeth Millard, Men's Health, 30 June 2023
  • Zeno’s paradoxes—which include the Achilles paradox and others, such as the arrow paradox—state that, from a mathematical point of view, the world should, to a certain extent, remain still.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 30 July 2024
  • Exactly how much changing the Big 12’s name would be worth annually to the 16 universities depends, to a certain extent, on the details.
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 14 June 2024
  • Cars, for example, can—and, to a certain extent, already do—run on electricity produced by solar panels and wind turbines.
    Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Such weaponization of leadership rules to criticize or squash dissent has always been a reality to a certain extent.
    Jason Del Rey, Fortune, 31 July 2024
  • While this may be true to a certain extent, others believe that there are some upsides to engaging in friends-with-benefits situations and scenarios.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Some of these root causes—like genetic predisposition, for example, and even stress to a certain extent—can be totally out of your control.
    Danielle Blundell, Women's Health, 28 Apr. 2023
  • All chippers can shred to a certain extent, but those with separate hoppers work much more efficiently and effectively.
    James Fitzgerald, Popular Mechanics, 11 May 2023
  • But there are a number of reasons baby boomers—and to a certain extent, members of the Silent Generation—are bucking tradition, financial advisors say.
    Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Professor Palmieri considers that, to a certain extent, eruptions may be predicted.
    Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Having a name, image and likeness collective levels the playing field to a certain extent, allowing smaller schools to dish out a piece of the financial pie to hopefully prevent players from bolting.
    John Marshall, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024

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