How to Use to a certain extent in a Sentence

to a certain extent

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  • The whole movie feels like a metaphor for you and your career to a certain extent.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • These were people that already bought in, at least to a certain extent.
    — Katie Drummond, WIRED, 13 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Clarke: That’s what’s so interesting about Alice’s, and Kat’s to a certain extent, presence in the ’70s.
    — Megan Vick, Variety, 4 Jan. 2025
  • That’s why the book is really, to a certain extent, a work of philosophy.
    — Sean Illing, Vox, 1 Feb. 2025
  • But to a certain extent, schools need to rely on students having good judgment.
    — Jennifer Conrad, WIRED, 1 Sep. 2022
  • In that sense, Trump's willingness to talk with Putin legitimizes him to a certain extent, or at least is an attempt to change the narrative.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
  • So to a certain extent what people are seeing now isn't really new.
    — Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2024
  • A lot of filming is pretty repetitive and mundane to a certain extent.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 15 Aug. 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
  • Their frustration is born to a certain extent of false perceptions.
    — Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 7 July 2024
  • Decline may be inevitable to a certain extent, but with many more shows like this one, and even long-time viewers will only bother finding out who won via email.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 16 Sep. 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
  • In Blink Twice, and to a certain extent, playing Whitney Houston, those are characters that are holding in their emotions and this felt like the opposite of that.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Everything is a little more relaxed to a certain extent.
    — Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2024
  • By contrast, Arsenal have lifted nine meaningful trophies in the 2000s and, to a certain extent, are treading a worn path.
    — George Caulkin, The Athletic, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Though what exactly happened remains to a certain extent unclear, the fact is there was no concert the following evening.
    — Ana Leorne, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Paris will therefore have to rely at least to a certain extent on something uncertain and ethereal: the goodwill of the attendees.
    — Sally Jenkins, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
  • Everything is rendered through subjective point of view, to a certain extent.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • There is a duality in that sense, being visible but only to a certain extent.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 18 Feb. 2025

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