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• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Still relatively new, padel is, to a certain extent, unencumbered by the historic gender inequality that is entrenched across most other sports, allowing issues such as equal pay to be built in from the start.
  — Amanda Davies, CNN, 6 Feb. 2024
• Everyone’s story matters and everyone’s work matters, to a certain extent.
  — Brian Josephs, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
• Experience matters to a certain extent at this event, but the U.S. talent, along with an outstanding coaching staff, should compensate for that inexperience and lack of chemistry.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
• While every new entry stands on its own to a certain extent, the Like a Dragon series has always worked, too, as an ever-growing exploration of a cast of surprisingly pure-hearted gangsters and the elaborate conspiracies in which they’re involved.
  — Reid McCarter, WIRED, 29 Jan. 2024
• Democrats–and, to a certain extent, mainstream economists–bristled at the concept of directing policy toward discrete industries.
  — Bymaria Flynn, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Sep 2024