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[ adverb ] as if it were really so

Synonyms

so_to_speak

Examples

"she lives here, as it were"

Used in print

(James Boylan, "Mutinity"...)

Nearly twenty-five years before , Captain_John_Davis had noted , as he sailed near the Arctic_Circle , `` a very great gulf , the water whirling and roaring , as_it_were the meeting of tides '' .

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