How to Use therein lies in a Sentence

therein lies

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  • And therein lies the irony of it all.
    — Josh Robbins, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2026
  • And therein lies the hub of the issue.
    — Simon Johnson, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2026
  • For baseball, therein lies some of the rub.
    — Andy McCullough, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2026
  • And therein lies the root of their red-zone problem.
    — Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 3 Dec. 2025
  • And therein lies his secret sauce.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2026
  • And therein lies the challenge.
    — Victoria Gomelsky, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 2025
  • And therein lies one of the show's biggest problems.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Nov. 2025
  • But in front of the employees or the investors, ah therein lies the rub.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2025
  • As my mentor teacher told me decades ago, therein lies learning.
    — Liz Shulman, Chicago Tribune, 2 July 2025
  • And therein lies the caveat for gingerbread houses of this size.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 17 Dec. 2025
  • And therein lies the bigger issue.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 7 Nov. 2025
  • But therein lies the silver lining.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Feb. 2026
  • And therein lies my issue with Barrow’s.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Apr. 2026
  • And therein lies part of the problem, at least from a public-facing standpoint.
    — Kevin Kurz, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • And therein lies the comedy and the drama and the humor and the pathos of his journey.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 May 2023
  • And therein lies a key to The Hunting Wives’ success.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2025
  • And therein lies a key reason why so many Gen-Xers and boomers are millionaires.
    — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 20 Jan. 2026
  • But therein lies a major problem, says Makhijani.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 June 2018
  • And therein lies the controversy over the risks and benefits of kratom.
    — David Kroll, The Conversation, 29 Aug. 2025
  • And therein lies the problem with Alabama’s worst-in-the-nation open records law.
    — Kyle Whitmire | [email protected], al, 26 June 2023
  • And therein lies the real conundrum.
    — Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 11 Feb. 2026
  • And therein lies the great contradiction of the one-handed backhand.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2023
  • And therein lies another hidden cost.
    — Anuradha Gupta, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Now that is not the same as forcing a political agenda on somebody, and therein lies the problem.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2025
  • China increasingly contests such a world, and therein lies the grand strategic rub.
    — G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs, 11 Feb. 2022
  • And therein lies the importance of this win for this album specifically.
    — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 3 Feb. 2025
  • And therein lies the challenge for Chinese clean tech—and perhaps what keeps it from bending the world’s emissions curve.
    — Justin Worland, Time, 10 Feb. 2026
  • And therein lies Bob’s biggest frustration.
    — Richard Newby, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Wrong, of course, and therein lies a fundamental distinction.
    — WSJ, 4 Dec. 2023
  • When compulsion takes over, therein lies the destruction of an industry.
    — Jay Stahl, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025

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