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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.
See also: sense

in a sense
considering a situation in a particular way It is tragic, in a sense, to see a family business destroyed.
See also: sense


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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.
My thirty years' experience reads those words in a sense exactly opposite to the sense which they are intended to convey.
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.
 
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