How to Use to such an extent in a Sentence

to such an extent

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  • Baseball has made a habit of cheating, to such an extent that cheating is part of its lore.
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The price of well-being What’s hurting worker well-being to such an extent?
    Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune, 27 June 2023
  • In Europe, players are openly abused from the bleachers to such an extent that some have walked off and abandoned the game in protest.
    NBC News, 11 July 2021
  • Lexus succeeded to such an extent that one of its cars, the LFA, is frequently called one of the best cars ever made, period.
    Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 17 May 2024
  • But over time, certain pigments have degraded to such an extent as to alter the artist's intent.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 14 June 2022
  • But the drought has reduced water levels in major reservoirs to such an extent that hydropower plants could be forced to shut down in a few months.
    Richard M. Frank, CNN, 16 July 2021
  • Meanwhile, boomers are also hustling, although not quite to such an extent.
    Hillary Hoffower, Fortune, 28 Oct. 2023
  • The situation grew to such an extent that tagging the Wauwatosa School District on Twitter was disabled.
    Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel, 20 July 2022
  • Protests by ultras escalated to such an extent that several games were on the verge of being called off.
    Manuel Veth, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The question is, Can they be built without disrupting the community to such an extent?
    Curbed, 11 July 2023
  • But the issue with promoting the headphone jack to such an extent is that Google is practically mocking the Pixel 6.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Over the next decade, Ticketmaster wielded its power to such an extent that artists began to revolt.
    Krista Brown, Rolling Stone, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The problem snowballed to such an extent that Urbana police subsequently asked Bitzer to institute a 9 pm curfew for users under the age of 16.
    Cameron Kaiser, Ars Technica, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Also, this will be the first Polish production complying with the rules of diversity and inclusion to such an extent.
    Marta Balaga, Variety, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Making work smarter The researchers question the assumption that AI will streamline our work to such an extent that many jobs will be rendered obsolete entirely.
    Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • In fact, the fervor grew to such an extent that Miu Miu began playing to the crowd, casting men’s models in recent shows and ad campaigns even without formally announcing a range designed for men.
    André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Password sharing is a widespread issue for Netflix and its competitors in the streaming space, to such an extent that marketplaces have sprouted up to help people find and buy account passwords on the cheap.
    Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2023
  • In most, the substance of work was incidental; the narrators glossed over spreadsheets, deadlines and check-ins to such an extent that many saw the videos as evidence of just how spoiled and indolent the young professional class had become.
    Lora Kelley, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • His diaphragm had ruptured to such an extent that some of his liver and connective tissue were herniated and inside his chest cavity.
    Li Cohen, CBS News, 15 June 2023
  • The financial fallout from the pandemic protocols in the U.S. was quite effectively cushioned—to such an extent that a main economic fear these days is that the economy will grow too quickly.
    The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2021
  • For as joyous and silly as clowns are supposed to be, pop culture has twisted the perception of these jesters to such an extent that some people only have a negative association with them.
    Ew Staff, EW.com, 24 May 2024
  • Wiley’s openings escalated to such an extent that one took place at a Harlem ballroom, and featured voguing demonstrations by members of the House of Xtravaganza.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
  • The brand’s cultural cachet had grown to such an extent that being selected for inclusion in the collection could boost a young filmmaker’s sales as well as reputation.
    Joshua Hunt, New York Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • And yet, just five years after Elizabeth’s Cape Town address, the world had already changed to such an extent that to speak of a great imperial family, as Elizabeth had done, was no longer appropriate.
    Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Yet even beyond Washington, a geriatric elite also controls many other aspects of an aging society, to such an extent that in some professions there are deep concerns about how those roles will be filled in decades to come.
    Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2023
  • His findings raised the possibility that deforestation might eventually degrade the hydrologic cycle to such an extent that the region’s climate would change.
    Thomas Lovejoy, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2020
  • The gravitational waves might congregate outside a black hole’s event horizon and concentrate their energy to such an extent that a separate singularity would form.
    Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The coronavirus disrupted consumers’ buying habits and shifted purchases largely to plastic cards to such an extent that in the summer of 2020, the Federal Reserve restricted coin orders by financial institutions.
    Kelly Tyko, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Bickering between the Fernandez and Kirchner camps has intensified to such an extent that the president’s spokeswoman, Gabriela Cerruti, intervened.
    Patrick Gillespie, Bloomberg.com, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Plant decomposition is slowed to such an extent in these areas that dead vegetation accumulates to form peat, effectively storing carbon dioxide.
    Franz Lidz, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2023

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