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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Qualification | Approximately in a limited degree (smallness); somewhat, sort of, something like that, to a certain extent, to a degree, in a sense, so to speak. |
Smallness | Partially, in part; in a certain degree, to a certain degree; to a certain extent; comparatively; some, rather in some degree, in some measure; something, somewhat; simply, only, purely, merely; at least, at the least, at most, at the most; ever so little, as little as may be, tant soit peu, in ever so small a degree; thus far, pro tanto, within bounds, in a manner, after a fashion, so to speak. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: TO A CERTAIN EXTENT |
| English words defined with "TO A CERTAIN EXTENT": After a fashion ♦ Bank credit ♦ go a long way ♦ judge advocate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TO A CERTAIN EXTENT": solid explosives ♦ tort executor. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This seemed the more probable, since he was religious and observed the forms of the church, to a certain extent, a thing much approved in those days. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Canada | Canada's economic development is, to a certain extent, reliant on foreign investment inflows. (references) |
Azerbaijan | A new civil code was adopted in September 2000 and has, to a certain extent, improved the legal environment for commercial activity. (references) | |
Jordan | A water protocol with Israel has eased the situation to a certain extent, and the country is currently exploring other ways to expand its supply. (references) | |
Political Rights | Yugoslavia | Ethnic Serbs and, to a certain extent, Montenegrins, dominate the country's political leadership. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bob Woodward | To the United States. To, as he kept saying, the neighborhood in the Middle East. And, to a certain extent, to everyone. And they've been working on this a year. The problem in North Korea at least came to a head, really, in the last four, five months. |
Dan Rather | Jay, I want to come back to something we discussed, at least touched on earlier. And that is that, at one time, death was kind of out of bounds. But you can, to a certain extent, at least joke about the death penalty now. |
Jon Stewart | That's what I'm saying, because you know our government goes away, meat will still be inspected, to a certain extent. Maybe not pork, maybe they are just going with beef, maybe chicken, maybe turkey, maybe they pick one meat. It is a shadow government. |
Ronald Reagan | Well, I get notes and I get calls and so forth to a certain extent, but having been there I understand also that you're so busy in a thing of that kind that you can't be doling out information all the time on everything that comes up. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Where an enterprise is meditated by private individuals against a foreign nation in amity with the United States, powers of prevention to a certain extent are given by the laws. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "TO A CERTAIN EXTENT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 相當 (appropriate, considerably, equivalent to, fairly), 在某種程度上 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | do urèité míry (to the point). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | tavallaan (in a fashion, in a manner, in a manner of speaking, in a way). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ある程度 (to some extent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | あるていど (to some extent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | otay aay ertaincay extentay pânã la un punct (kind of, like). (various references) в известной мере (in some sort, to some extent). (various references) i viss utsträckning. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | aliquatenus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-e-i-n-n-o-r-t-t-t-t-x" | |
-4 letters: exenteration. | |
-5 letters: interactant, recantation. | |
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