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IN A WAY
I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
From some points of view
Example:
she was right in a way
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Context examples:
She only shook her own head at him, but in a way that made him quail.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
So in a way it could help reduce imports, because with slower nutrient releases, plants can absorb it by portions more suited to their metabolism, their pace of growth.
(New Brazilian fertilizer can boost productivity, Agência BRASIL)
“You are good to look upon—in a way,” I qualified.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
There is always a look of consciousness or bustle when people come in a way which they know to be beneath them.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
In the meantime, the captain gradually brightened up at his own music, and at last flapped his hand upon the table before him in a way we all knew to mean silence.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Margaret's sagacity was not always displayed in a way so satisfactory to her sister.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I have been to Turner's about your mess; it is all in a way to be done.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient take liberties or touch or hug others in a way that is out of character for him/her?
(NPI - Take Liberties or Touch or Hug Others, NCI Thesaurus)
Having to do with the process by which regulatory proteins can turn genes on or off in a way that can be passed on during cell division.
(Epigenetic, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
“We are not in a way to know what Mr. Bingley likes,” said her mother resentfully, “since we are not to visit.”
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
