so to speak
Example Sentences
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What’s Next: The company will offer teenagers an incentive to do their investing homework, so to speak.
From Barron's
The first shot, so to speak, came in Anthropic’s conflict with the Pentagon after the company refused to have its technology used for fully autonomous killer drone storms and the mass surveillance of Americans.
From Salon
“I’m not looking to change the face of rock and roll,” Garcia said, “but maybe we’ll put a couple stitches in, give it a black eye, so to speak.”
From Los Angeles Times
Around here things were getting too hot for us, so to speak.
From Literature
Only after readers have become invested in the characters—pot committed, so to speak—does Tolstoy stretch out the scenes and slow the action.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
