OXFORD 9000
📚 adv • entry_id 41253

as it were

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digamos • por así decirlo
Used to indicate that a word or statement is perhaps not exact though practically right; as if it were so.
With so much construction and renovation going on all around him, he was more or less living in a new city now, as it were. [His city is not newly founded, and it has been neither…
Yet so strong is the parental ambition among those Polygons who are, as it were, on the fringe of the Circular class, that it is very rare to find a Nobleman of that position in so…
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