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• Some movement exists — sing a requiem for the Sooners this year — but in large measure the games don’t even have to be played.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Oct. 2022
• That the people who come to these pieces will, in large measure, agree with their basic framework to begin with.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2024
• That means oversized houses are less popular than in the past, in large measure due to cost.
  — Ellen James Martin, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Mexican food, as the world now knows it, [exists] in large measure because of Enrique Olvera.
  — Jorge Valencia Mariano Fernandez, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• On the flip side, top seeds Gonzaga and Arizona were sent packing in large measure because their lead guards were shut down.
  — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2022
• And that is also due in large measure to the constant flow of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine being provided by the United States and other countries.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2022
• Pfister said in states like Missouri, where the vaccination rate is lower, there are more serious cases in large measure due to variants of the virus.
  — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2021
• By these lights, the Revolution was in large measure a proslavery secession sparked by American fears of British threats to slavery.
  — Sean Wilentz, The New York Review of Books, 19 June 2021
• Over ensuing days, the blaze waxes and wanes and then blows up again, controlled in large measure by weather and also the heroic efforts of firefighters to contain it.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2019
• Chiuri’s success has been built, in large measure, by seeking kinship with other women.
  — Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2022
• In Exeter, the crowd was definitely buying what Haley was selling, which, in large measure, was herself.
  — Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2023
• But especially on the right, the dispute has become in large measure about identity and culture, not just about the policy itself.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Oct. 2021
• But this is in large measure due to state injections into sectors serving the war and social payments to its participants.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 1 Dec. 2023
• This gap in achievement is a reminder that the art of directing is in large measure dependent on the practicalities of production.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2024
• The cause is not so much declines in snowfall as warming temperatures, in large measure a result of humankind's emissions of greenhouse gases.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2018
• The precipitation impacting the U.S. west coast as of late has been much anticipated, thanks in large measure to the influence El Niño.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2016
• Of course, if government spending takes an increasing share of the economic pie, something must decrease, and, in large measure, that has been investment, which is vital to growth.
  — Douglas Carr, National Review, 7 Feb. 2024
• This spring, thanks in large measure to warm temperatures and scant precipitation, runoff is expected to be paltry — and that's putting it mildly.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 24 May 2022
• The outcome of this fight within labor, and the wider progressive movement, will determine in large measure how aggressive Biden will be on climate-busting projects.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2021
• The former discourages businesses from making big investments all at once, the opposite of what Biden wanted to achieve and in large measure did achieve with his reshoring policy.
  — Karl W. Smith, Twin Cities, 20 Jan. 2024
• The day-to-day work of public health departments depends in large measure on their placement in and relationships with local communities.
  — Wendy E. Parmet, Scientific American, 19 Oct. 2022
• That a small fraction of Covid-19 patients become seriously ill or succumb to disease is in large measure due to the inability of the innate immune system to ward off the virus within the first five to 10 days of infection.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• On the occasions when that actually happened, the offense, especially early on, pounded low and flew high, thanks in large measure to Romney.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Sep. 2021
• Whether the world has now reached another greater or lesser turning point depends in large measure on how the war in Ukraine plays out, and on whether the West squanders its rediscovery of itself or consolidates it through renewal.
  — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 6 Apr. 2022
• None are building in Oregon, though, in large measure because of a shortage of industrial land near the industry’s hub in suburban Portland and because the state has failed to nurture one of its most vital sectors.
  — oregonlive, 17 Aug. 2022
• The lessened requirements were in large measure a recognition that students had to cope with technology problems and family stresses at home.
  — Howard Blumestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2022
• Ironically, the Fed is in large measure responsible for low interest rates.
  — Douglas Carr, National Review, 14 Sep. 2020
• America's future as a nation in large measure depends on solving the immigration problem.
  — Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• The economy had boomed during his tenure, thanks in large measure to surging commodities prices, a significant oil discovery off the coast, and the explosive growth of China, a major buyer of Brazilian exports.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2023
• According to family members, McClinton’s survival in prison was based in large measure on his affiliation with the Bloods and payoffs to other gang members for food, personal products and cell phone use.
  — Danny Robbins, ajc, 19 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024