Sentence examples for something to this effect from inspiring English sources

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He appears to have felt (he says something to this effect), on completing a poem, that he would never be able to write another.

He turned from his podium to the offender, who was seated in the front row, and said something to this effect: "Are you going to turn it off?

Q: -- of the fact that later in the day, on Saturday, the 6th of December , 1997 Secret Service people were then, were told something to this effect: This event never happened, let's just pretend this event did not happen.

I, for my part, can say only that I went to the Reich Chancellery, and the Fuehrer told me that he had given the order and that nothing else could be done now, or something to this effect, and that things were now in motion.

When I said something to this effect to Mr. Sontag, he didn't break into a long disquisition about its provenance (an Indian market on Lexington Avenue, as Mr. Seider later revealed) or launch into a wine-speak analysis of why it marries so well with tequila and red peppers.

The proposed warning might say something to this effect: "This product contains a chemical known to the state of California to cause cancer". The food industry, which might prefer seeing every American become vegan to being forced to put the word "cancer" on its products, is worried.

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And I think there's really something to this: framing effects can be very influential, and to the degree that you can think of a task as close rather than distant, you're more likely to actually get it done.

Q: You have no knowledge of the fact that Secret Service officers were told later in the day something to the effect of, this never happened, this event never happened?

I seem to remember reading something to that effect in this very reputable paper".

According to an aide, Obama said something to the effect of "This is ridiculous.

She went back to the man and said, I assume, something to the effect of "This is not our cab".

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