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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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"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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The second reaction reminds me of Moliere who described a sudden retreat into home life, to plant our gardens, as it were.

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My mother moved to Paris when she was 55 and started all over again — and that was Carla’s path, as it were.

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"Maybe we can do like a motion capture day somehow. Do some animal studies, as it were."

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