in a way

in a way

English

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Prepositional phrase

in a way

1. To a certain degree, or in a certain sense.
   • 2020 April, Elizabeth Kolbert, Why we won't avoid a climate catastrophe, National Geographic

     As an adult, I became a journalist whose beat is the environment. In a way, I’ve turned my youthful preoccupations into a profession.

   Synonym: in a sense

Translations

to a certain degree, or in a certain sense

Dutch: in zekere zin Finnish: tavallaan (fi) French: dans un sens (fr), d’une certaine façon, dans un certain sens, dans une certaine mesure (fr) German: in gewisser Weise, gewissermaßen (de) Greek: κάπως (el) (kápos), περίπου (el) (perípou) Hungarian: bizonyos értelemben Norwegian: Bokmål: delvis, til dels, til en viss grad Nynorsk: delvis, til dels, til ei viss grad Polish: w pewnym sensie, niejako, poniekąd Portuguese: de certa forma Russian: в не́котором ро́де (ru) (v nékotorom róde), в не́которой сте́пени (v nékotoroj stépeni) Turkish: bir bakıma (tr)

See also

• in the way
• once in a way