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[ adverb ] as if it were really so

Synonyms

as_it_were

Examples

"she lives here, as it were"

Used in print

(Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)

But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come_down bathed , brushed , and taking_breaths of air , and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy , a grace of history , so_to_speak , and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value .

2
[ adverb ] in a manner of speaking

Synonyms

as_we_say

Examples

"the feeling is, as we say, quite dead"

Used in print

(Newton Stallknecht, "Ideas and Literature," in Newton S...)

In this essay , we are , along with most historians , interested in the more general or more inclusive ideas , that are so_to_speak `` writ_large '' in history of literature where they recur continually .

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