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as it were
Idioms and Phrases
Seemingly, in a way, as in He was living in a dream world, as it were . A shortening of “as if it were so,†this idiom has been in use since Chaucer's time (he had it in his Nun's Priest's Tale , c. 1386). Also see so to speak .Example Sentences
Most often, paleoecologists use modern understanding of how organisms interact with their environment and apply them to what we know about the past in order to bring it to life, as it were.
The second reaction reminds me of Moliere who described a sudden retreat into home life, to plant our gardens, as it were.
My mother moved to Paris when she was 55 and started all over again — and that was Carla’s path, as it were.
"Maybe we can do like a motion capture day somehow. Do some animal studies, as it were."
They weren’t directly on my mind, but both characters are deeply embedded in my literary muscle memory, as it were.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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