as it were
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"It's the early harvest. This is the time when the first corn is cut, the first wheat is cut, the first bread of the year, as it were."
From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026
With that said, Storrie’s “SNL” nomination is the voters’ way of signaling they’re down to come to the cottage, as it were.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
And whatever their failures are, that ends up being their ruling attribute to their poker game, as it were.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026
They aimed to retain the “breathing units” of biblical speech, even if that meant straining German with Hebraic syntax; the criteria, Mendes-Flohr observes, were “not aesthetic but, as it were, respiratory.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
“Well! I heerd as it were a person what sent the person what giv’ you the bank-notes at the Jolly Bargemen, Pip.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
