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• If anything, maybe that locks him in to a greater extent.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 3 June 2023
• This may also work, to a lesser degree, on the demand side.
  — Bill Conerly, Forbes, 5 Dec. 2024
• The players teams will call most about are Jonathan Kuminga and, to a lesser degree, Moses Moody.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 14 May 2024
• There’s plenty of time spent on the three main brothers — Kevin, Kerry and David — and to a lesser degree on Mike.
  — Ed Symkus, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
• But the Hotline believes the Huskies, to a greater extent than the Wildcats, could have done more despite tricky timing.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
• That would be Wes, and to a lesser extent Mrs. Langsberry.
  — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 20 June 2024
• That is what Texas and to a lesser extent Florida are trying to do.
  — Erwin Chemerinsky, Twin Cities, 28 Feb. 2024
• Casas, who is a minus-6 in defensive runs saved, will, too — though to a lesser extent than Hernández.
  — Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
• As Earth turns, the gravitational pull between it and the moon, and to a lesser degree the sun, creates ocean tides.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
• Kamala the prosecutor is present there, and, to a lesser extent, so is Kamala the meme.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 22 July 2024
• Other people’s drama is the foundation of the internet, and it could be mined to a greater extent on late night, frankly.
  — Vulture, 27 Oct. 2023
• Didn’t retailers rely on discounts to a greater extent than even in 2022?
  — Indy Guha, Forbes, 15 Feb. 2024
• Ford got a big boost slashing prices, particularly on the Mach-E and, to a lesser degree, on the Lightning.
  — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 3 Apr. 2024
• That same void exists, to a lesser degree, in the music industry.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• Red Lobster is also going through it, but to a lesser extent.
  — Angela L. Pagán / The Takeout, Quartz, 26 Feb. 2024
• The walled Old City is only a third of a square mile in size, and few places evoke to a greater extent the literal jostling of one Abrahamic faith against another.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• But what was happening behind the scenes is what would really send Great Britain – and to a lesser extent, the world – back to the days of Britpop mania.
  — Mark Sutherland, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024
• More broadly, Thomas, to a greater extent even than Cannon, suggested that the road to tyranny runs through Smith’s office.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 16 July 2024
• If a full co-ord is not your jam, then there is also a DunKings costume inspired by the boy band outfits just to a lesser extent.
  — Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 1 Oct. 2024
• Much of the evidence concerned breast cancer and to a lesser extent prostate cancer.
  — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
• The company’s share price is correlated to the price of gold , and also copper to a lesser degree.
  — Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2024
• Milwaukee’s north, northwest and, to a lesser extent, near-south sides, continue to bear the brunt of the city's violence.
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
• Also, of course, addiction, divorce, and suicide, which tend to plague the armed forces to a greater degree than the non-military public.
  — CBS News, 28 June 2024
• Footwell intrusion was also seen in the passenger-side test to a lesser degree, IIHS found.
  — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 6 June 2024
• Without any ties to the U.S., many Venezuelans have relied on local services to a greater extent than other migrants.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2023
• The drop has come heavily from Biden’s fellow Democrats and, to a lesser extent, from the state’s nonpartisan voters.
  — Erin B. Logan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2023
• That is expected to continue — even if to a lesser extent.
  — Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• Altice, Drahi, and to a lesser extent, Sotheby’s, have become something of a staple in the financial trade.
  — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 23 Sep. 2024
• Now, the hyper-partisan politics in the shadow of the 2024 election is breaking the bonds of families to a greater extent than ever before.
  — Joshua Coleman and Will Johnson, TIME, 13 Dec. 2024
• Forty-six percent of the public expect the economy to improve in the next year, up nine points from October, and driven by a switch of Republicans (and, to a lesser extent, independents) from pessimistic to optimistic.
  — Steve Liesman, CNBC, 15 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Jan 2025