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in so far

Adverb

Meaning

to the degree or extent that

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Examples

To the untrue man, the whole universe is false- it is impalpable- it shrinks to nothing within his grasp. And he himself is in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist. Nathaniel Hawthorne

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void. Ursula K. Le Guin

Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being. Carl Jung

We are not isolationists except in so far as we seek to isolate ourselves completely from war. Yet we must remember that so long as war exists on earth there will be some danger that even the Nation which most ardently desires peace may be drawn into war. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market. Ha-Joon Chang

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