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[ adverb ] in the actual state of affairs and often contrary to expectations
Examples "he might have been killed as it is he was severely injured" Used in print (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)As_it_is , they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism , that in_spite_of its high standard_of_living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways , although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter . |
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