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as in insofar as
to the degree that
the economic forecast for the coming decade looks promising, inasmuch as we can predict that far in advance
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as in because
for the reason that
you should not use that source, inasmuch as it is badly out-of-date
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Recent Examples of inasmuch as
Eighty is the new 68, inasmuch as the mortality rate of 80-year-old American women in 2019 was the same as that of 68-year-old women in 1933.
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Jonathan Rauch, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
Jeb Bush being Hispanic Nine years ago, the American political landscape was very different, inasmuch as there were Republican presidential candidates who were normal and boring in the way that an exhausted, uptight high school principal who hates dancing might be.
—Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
The series, which is horror only inasmuch as international politics are a horror show, fittingly premieres on Netflix on Halloween.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2024
Those sound like decent specs and a nice intro-level Wi-Fi 7 kit, inasmuch as this early adopter tech can be.
—Wes Davis, The Verge, 26 Oct. 2023
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Jonathan Rauch, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2024
Jeb Bush being Hispanic Nine years ago, the American political landscape was very different, inasmuch as there were Republican presidential candidates who were normal and boring in the way that an exhausted, uptight high school principal who hates dancing might be.
—Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
The series, which is horror only inasmuch as international politics are a horror show, fittingly premieres on Netflix on Halloween.
—Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2024
Those sound like decent specs and a nice intro-level Wi-Fi 7 kit, inasmuch as this early adopter tech can be.
—Wes Davis, The Verge, 26 Oct. 2023
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Conjunction
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The puzzle at the center of The Accountant 2 matters insofar as the film needs a narrative propellant.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The Hollywood Reporter,
9 Mar. 2025
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The scene is masculine insofar as the prisoners and onlookers are all male-coded, and set within an austere space that connotes brute power and authority.—
Sarah C. Schaefer,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2025
Conjunction
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The feature-length film had slightly more narrative adornment — in so far as MacGruber faced off against a central villain, the bloodthirsty sophisticate Dieter Von Cunth, played by Val Kilmer.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
4 Apr. 2025
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DeSantis’s comments come as Trump faces one of the most significant political tests of his second administration so far as voters head to the polls in Wisconsin and Florida.—
Julia Manchester,
The Hill,
1 Apr. 2025
Conjunction
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Are you allowed to tease your experience shooting in the Arctic for Part Two? Only insomuch as nothing has ever been filmed in the Arctic for a movie of this scale.—
Brian Davids,
The Hollywood Reporter,
14 July 2023
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But the Department of Defense has relaxed its requirement in recent years, insomuch as football players can defer their military service until their NFL careers are complete.—
Nate Davis,
USA TODAY,
2 Mar. 2023
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