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so to speak

CONJUNCTION
as if
Synonyms
WEAK
as it were as it would be as might be in such a way that just as just as if just as though
CONJUNCTION
as though
Synonyms
WEAK
as it were as it would be as might be in such a way that just as just as if just as though

Example Sentences

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Yet in choosing to end at the beginning, so to speak, and focus on the early Cold War, Mr. Grace avoids having to assess how the new arrangement subsequently performed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

Small-cap stocks are taking share, so to speak.

From Barron's • Jan. 17, 2026

Viewers loved going to the movies for those big-budget spectacles because they were a means of transportation, so to speak.

From Salon • Jan. 6, 2026

Would it ever be possible for these glaciers to come back to life, so to speak?

From Slate • Dec. 19, 2025

Courtesy of the cat, she’d fired a round, so to speak, in the direction of each.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.