Wiktionary
a. to some extent, partially
Usage examples of "in ways".
Changing anything under Linux is a matter of opening up various of those little ASCII text files and changing a word here and a character there, in ways that are extremely significant to how the system operates.
She wondered about the little scaly devils in ways that had never occurred to her before.
It was all coming to fruition now in ways even he hadn't anticipated.
He sat down and copied out the alphabet and tried to link up all the letters in ways that might make an intelligent pattern.
Some of them would die, and all of them would be changed, in ways many of them would not recognize until years later, if ever.
The First Law will drive him to participate with the local people in ways that might help them.
An operation that puts you at considerable risk, not only physically but in ways we both understand.
He might not have been telepathic, but he dis- played a keen sensitivity where she was concerned that more than made up for it in ways she could never have anticipated.