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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb To such an extent.

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  • adverb To such a degree or extent.

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  • adverb to the degree or extent that

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Examples

  • Your expression insofar as I could decipher it was one of quiet appreciation.

    The Guardian World News 2011

  • As I see it, the S2 has the potential to change the face of professional cameras in the long term insofar as it's at once conventionally familiar and radically unique.

    DigitalCameraReview.com Digital Camera News and Reviews 2008

  • The creed has a legitimate claim to its title insofar as all articles are found in theological formulas current around 100 AD, between the Apostolic Period and the beginning of the Post-Apostolic Period: elements found in the Interrogatory Creed of Hippolytus (c.

    Latest Articles 2010

  • Instead, insofar is it isn’t merely a piece of goofy rhetoric (and I think John Edwards went a bit too far in suggesting this is all it is) it’s a conceptual confusion — an effort to lump together a bunch of loosely-related issues that 9/11 all happened to highlight and turn them into a single “thing” even though there’s nothing there.

    Matthew Yglesias » After GWOT, What? 2007

  • Is there a smith who has a name insofar as working on these things such as smoothing them up, etc?

    Do You Feel Lucky, Watermelon? 2009

  • Is there a smith who has a name insofar as working on these things such as smoothing them up, etc?

    Do You Feel Lucky, Watermelon? 2009

  • Not so fast... the thousands I'm guessing-- review the screenshots way, way below and judge for yourself of images are actually interesting in a rather different way, namely insofar as they seem to rebut an assertion being made by Steele and his folks prior to the election.

    Steele Website's Image Gallery Hints At Long Re-Election Campaign The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • But that is not the way out of the dilemma insofar as you cannot recognize your own greatness by negating that of all others.

    hatto fischer | poetry & politics « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

  • An answering signal from Sauerkraut, whose expression insofar as sheep are capable of expression was resolute.

    Beginner’s Grace Kate Braestrup 2010

  • Not so fast... the thousands I'm guessing-- review the screenshots way, way below and judge for yourself of images are actually interesting in a rather different way, namely insofar as they seem to rebut an assertion being made by Steele and his folks prior to the election.

    Steele Website's Image Gallery Hints At Long Re-Election Campaign The Huffington Post News Team 2010

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