to a certain extent
B1CEFR level
15/100Rarity: common
NeutralRegister
A hedging phrase indicating that a statement is only partly true or applicable.
To a certain extent, the model accounts for the anomalies, but several remain unexplained.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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