View definitions for as it were

as it were

adverb as in id est

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conjunction as in as if

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conjunction as in as though

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"But it was very, very moving. It lifted the pressure, a weight off my head, as it were," he says.

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The Prince of Hong Kong, as it were, albeit for a couple of months.

What illusions it offers are, as it were, stage magic.

"It took me a long time to adapt to normal life, as it were, and all the things that contribute to keeping me in a steady place."

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But of course, a great deal has flowed between the first spring and the last, as it were.

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