How to Use insofar as in a Sentence
insofar as
conjunction- The news is good insofar as it suggests that a solution may be possible.
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Most of the story, insofar as there is one, is driven by her crises.
—Rachelle Hampton, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
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The plot, insofar as there is one, centers on her struggle to cry on camera.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2023
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But the union did have a stake, insofar as UAW workers wanted cars to remain affordable for themselves and the rest of the working class.
—Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
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These pools are meant to lay flat against the lawn and are permanent insofar as they can’t be relocated.
—Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 30 May 2023
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The show is at once very small, with just a dozen works, and sweeping, insofar as those works range in locale from Angola to Mexico to China to the coast of Maine.
—Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
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Yes, insofar as the process of seeking the peoples’ support has been allowed to continue.
—Ayesha Jalal, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2024
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This is not surprising insofar as only the first members of a sequence are stored in the OEIS catalog.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 3 Mar. 2023
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For the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer choral music was meaningful only insofar as the words were not the point.
—Adrian Daub, Longreads, 3 Sep. 2021
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Hypothermia is a good way to go, insofar as there is any good way to go in an extreme situation.
—Elizabeth Hightower Allen, Outside Online, 2 Mar. 2022
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On the other hand there is a contrast, insofar as absolute deprivation will not be the norm.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 Jan. 2013
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And which religions are doing the best job in caring for youths with mental health challenges, insofar as that can be determined by the data?
—The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Sep. 2022
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They’re correctly focused on the future and, insofar as the museum ought to be concerned, on the wonders of visual culture.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 10 Feb. 2024
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All gone, only missed insofar as none of the characters feel like real people anymore.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2023
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The book's ending differs from the series, especially insofar as where all the characters' lives leave off.
—Seija Rankin, EW.com, 23 Sep. 2021
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State governments do that, or city governments insofar as the state permits.
—Peter M. Sandman, STAT, 18 July 2021
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The prime minister has signaled on many occasions his very close alignment with the U.S. insofar as tackling China.
—Garret Martin, The Conversation, 6 June 2023
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That’s to your credit and, insofar as your errant old minister helped shape the moral sensibility of your church, just possibly to his.
—Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
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This may be a case where natural selection is at work, insofar as the characters of the lineage have diverged from that which is typical in the ancestral forms.
—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2011
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Except that government can only spend insofar as the economy has already grown, or will grow.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 31 July 2022
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This suggests that cries of fake polling can be self-fulfilling, insofar as those who distrust pollsters are less likely to participate in polls.
—Dan Rockmore, The New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2024
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Culture only plays a role insofar as how those principles are applied.
—Stephanie Judd, Forbes, 6 May 2022
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Here, as elsewhere, there is a bright line between protesting and impeding the rights of others, and, insofar as the truckers’ protest has veered over that line, the government has the legal authority to respond.
—Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 16 Feb. 2022
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Both are constricting insofar as he is either shaped or shaping himself.
—Hazlitt, 20 Sep. 2023
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This new Pinocchio is funnier and more obviously mature, insofar as there's a running joke about how Pinocchio keeps dying.
—Darren Franich, Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 23 Dec. 2022
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Weight loss contributes to inadequate muscle mass insofar as muscle is lost along with fat.
—Judith Graham, oregonlive, 19 July 2023
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The precepts of Black Lives Matter, too, seemed to support the campaign, insofar as mercy shown to a privileged, white male Stanford student appeared to be an instance of racially disparate treatment.
—Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2023
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The corporate culture, insofar as it can be called that, is informed by his vivid childhood memories of watching how poorly his father was treated after the family moved from their farm to the city.
—Jon Caramanica, Town & Country, 28 Feb. 2023
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But insofar as the Republican Party is a primary obstacle to policies that would begin wresting their power away, any small thing that might weaken it is well worth a try.
—Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2021
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And yet, Trump’s defenders have a point insofar as the former president’s spleen-venting contortions on the internet have little staying power.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 15 Jan. 2024
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