in some measure

Idioms  

1. Somewhat, to a certain extent, as in In some measure we owe these privileges to our parents. Shakespeare used this term in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1:2): “I will condole in some measure.” Similarly, in large measure, dating from the same period, means “to a considerable extent,” as in In large measure the two sides agree. [c. 1600]

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Example Sentences

Conventionally, doing a series of big favors for a constituency results in some measure of support from that group.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026

It is, in some measure, an educational failure.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

The once sedate RBS had become in some measure the biggest bank in the world.

From BBC • May 30, 2025

Let’s be tactful and call it an explosion of cinema, a simultaneously dazzling and depressing survey of a motion-picture medium whose formative years we have just, in some measure, witnessed.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2022

Even that was supplied in some measure by the reticence of my fellow travelers.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Related Words

• at least
• partially
• slightly
• somewhat