in a sense

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in a sense

in a way; in one way of looking at it. In a sense, cars make life better. But, in a sense, they also make life worse.

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Monsieur will then, I am sure, have the goodness to be considerate with her at first, and not expose her backwardness, her inevitable deficiencies, before the young ladies, who, in a sense, are her pupils. The Professor by Bronte, Charlotte View in context My thirty years' experience reads those words in a sense exactly opposite to the sense which they are intended to convey. No Name by Collins, Wilkie View in context Both mind and matter seem to be composite, and the stuff of which they are compounded lies in a sense between the two, in a sense above them both, like a common ancestor. The Analysis of Mind by Russell, Bertrand View in context			in a flash in a fog in a funk in a good light in a heartbeat in a huff in a jam in a jiffy in a lather in a little bit in a mad rush in a manner of speaking in a month of Sundays in a New York minute in a nut shell in a nutshell in a pickle in a pig's eye In a pig's eye! in a pinch in a pique in a quandary in a row in a rut in a second in a sense in a snit in a spot in a stage whisper in a stew in a stupor in a sweat in a tight spot in a tizzy in a twit in a twitter in a vacuum in a vicious circle in a way in a word in a world of own in abeyance in absentia in accord in accordance with in action in addition in advance in agreement in all but name in all likelihood			in a month of Sundays in a New York minute in a New York minute In A New York Second in a nut shell in a nutshell in a nutshell in a nutshell In a Perfect World In a Pickle In a pig's ass! In a pig's ear! in a pig's eye in a pig's eye in a pig's eye in a pig's eye In a pig's eye! in a pinch in a pinch in a pinch in a pinch in a pinch in a pique in a quandary in a quandary in a row in a row in a row in a rut in a second in a sense In a Silent Way In A Similar Manner in a similar way In A single Round in a snit in a split second in a spot in a stage whisper in a state of action in a state of flux In a state of nature in a state of uncertainty in a stew In a stound in a stupor in a sweat in a tight spot in a tizzy in a tough spot in a twinkling in a twinkling in a twit in a twitter in a twitter in a twitter in a vacuum in a vicious circle

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