how so

idiom

: in what way : why does one think that
"This room looks different." "How so?"

Examples of how so in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web There are other baseball-era traces: The old streetcar rails pop through the asphalt on 25th or Greenmount Avenue, reminding us how so many people traveled to the games here. Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 4 May 2024 After all, that's how so many have fallen in love with Mexico. Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 13 Apr. 2024 But Ohtani’s version of events raises major questions about how so much money could have vanished without sounding alarm bells in his camp or with the financial institutions charged with safeguarding his assets. Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2024 But over two hours, Tucker Carlson did not ask Putin about how so many of his opponents wind up imprisoned and murdered, or the warrant the International Criminal Court has out for his arrest for war crimes in Ukraine. Scott Simon, NPR, 23 Feb. 2024 The fact that the directors lean heavily on TikTok stylistics and faux-phone recordings for a lot of their numbers makes sense on the page, since that’s how so much musical content gets created and consumed these days. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2024 The project has been kicking around in the director’s head for decades, which might explain how so much Star Wars mythology got tangled up in it, not to mention Dune, Avatar and even a dollop of Game of Thrones. David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2023 The first game examined the role of archetypes in various cultures, how so many stories often travel similar paths. Gene Park, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023 The event highlighted how so many things are covered during the war. Trey Yingst, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Dec. 2023

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“How so.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/how%20so. Accessed 29 May. 2024.

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