AS IT WERE Definition & Meaning

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as it were

Seemingly, in a way, as in He was living in a dream world, as it were. A shortening of “as if it were so,” this idiom has been in use since Chaucer's time (he had it in his Nun's Priest's Tale, c. 1386). Also see so to speak.

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What illusions it offers are, as it were, stage magic.

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"It took me a long time to adapt to normal life, as it were, and all the things that contribute to keeping me in a steady place."

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But of course, a great deal has flowed between the first spring and the last, as it were.

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"It's the reason I started wearing scarves. To try and make sure that any future spills, as it were, which do happen from time to time to everybody, do not show. "

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Most often, paleoecologists use modern understanding of how organisms interact with their environment and apply them to what we know about the past in order to bring it to life, as it were.

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