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so to speak

conjunction as in as if

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conjunction as in as though

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It is an astonishing, so to speak, over-the-top score, which you either love or abhor for its instrumental vulgarity.

My dad was the kind of instructor, so to speak.

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"Lando's open, he kind of wears his emotions on his sleeve, so to speak," Brown said.

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"There was a sense of nationalism; people felt we were selling our identity, so to speak, to people who knew nothing about us," she says.

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There is no fossil record of sentient AI, no ice cores of machine feeling, so to speak.

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