in a way

Idioms  

1. To a certain extent, with reservations; also, in some respects. For example, In a way I like the new styles, or You're right, in a way, but we have to consider the price. [Mid-1800s]

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in a way

Act now, even in a way that might make you feel uncomfortable, because this chance might never come again.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

"They'd all had their own different or difficult journeys in a way that we could relate to them."

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

"The LNF is an amazing facility," Gong said, adding it was a painstaking process to meld the device's materials together in a way that didn't introduce any extraneous electric fields.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026

“This is in a way the changing of the guard,” said Jonathan Rynhold, a political scientist at Bar-Ilan University in central Israel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

And her eyes were brighter than he’d yet seen them, and she looked ready, in a way that she had not before, to face the world.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell