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[ adverb ] as if it were really so
Synonyms 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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