How to Use to what extent in a Sentence

to what extent

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  • Which, and to what extent? The Supreme Court has placed this issue in the hands of each state.
    — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • But to what extent is transparency at the heart of this?
    — Abc News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2023
  • And to what extent were things possibly pushed back on?
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2022
  • This raises the question of whether and to what extent these costs are justified.
    — Esade Business & Law School, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • And to what extent would this depend on other moving parts in the region?
    — Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • And all eyes will be on the polls to see to what extent anything Harry shares shifts the dial on public opinion.
    — Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 31 Oct. 2022
  • And to what extent did this give the terrorist group another lease on life? 2.
    — Peter Bergen, CNN, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The biggest question may be to what extent the public sees Joe Biden being tied to his son’s actions.
    — Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024
  • But just being real here, to what extent will this just replace a good number of jobs?
    — Washington Post Live, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
  • One thing that the translator has to think about is to what extent Mandelstam is being governed by the sounds of words.
    — Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The question of what the Höss family knows—and to what extent they can be held responsible—looms over The Zone of Interest.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Scientists now have a chance to determine to what extent.
    — Devika Rao, theweek, 28 May 2024
  • No such connection has been established, and the process of learning whether there is one–and to what extent–will rightfully take years.
    — Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2023
  • Whether, or to what extent, their refund is reduced is largely out of the taxpayer's control.
    — Brieanna J. Frank, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Which, and to what extent? Our current background check system for purchasing firearms is flawed.
    — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • GardaWorld has not disclosed which of its customers’ money was stolen in the Easter crime or to what extent it was insured.
    — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
  • Which, and to what extent? My two opponents are extremists.
    — The San Diego Union-Tribune Staff, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Can the method be turned into a prognostic tool, inferring to what extent UWS patients are on the road to recovery?
    — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2017
  • But to what extent might Maryland’s budget woes stem from broader issues with the state’s economy?
    — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The data is used to produce real-time maps and simulations to help identify when, where and to what extent a threat is likely to emerge.
    — Darren Ruddell, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2023
  • But the researchers wondered to what extent the success of the observers relied on the game players' success at guessing either the number or shape of objects.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 Dec. 2023
  • There's a -- obviously, a dramatic difference between the views of how, to what extent and so on.
    — CBS News, 23 Apr. 2023
  • But to what extent do Californians perceive the risks that events like those pose to their water supplies?
    — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Life Dogs know when people are lying A new study tested to what extent dogs can sense human deception.
    — Big Think, 24 June 2024
  • It wasn’t immediately known to what extent the worldwide job cuts would affect Cisco workers in the Bay Area.
    — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 15 Feb. 2024
  • And to what extent will the Wildcats’ cash crunch impact athletic department funding in the future?
    — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Whether and to what extent the staffing situation has affected patient care is an open question.
    — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2024
  • There's a- obviously a dramatic difference between the views of how, to what extent, and so on.
    — CBS News, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Among the key questions over the next months will be how much France and Britain are willing to commit to defense spending, and to what extent the new migration measures can deter Channel crossings.
    — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Lemieux: What the field doesn’t know for sure is to what extent these individuals transmit the viruses that are evolved to the general population.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 24 Jan. 2024

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