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 • Mar. 26, 2026
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 • Mar. 23, 2026
"The carbon reservoir has a leak, so to speak, from which ancient carbon is escaping," adds co-author Matti Barthel, research technician in SAE.
From Science Daily • Feb. 24, 2026
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
While I never did totally lose awareness of myself, I believe I did, so to speak, lose Cinnamon.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
