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So many characteristics that had been strange and unfathomable to me before, took, as it were, their right proportions.
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I may as well cut to the chase, or to the case, as it were (a 24-pack would be preferable).
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At the turn of the millennium the nostalgia industry was already vibrant -- but packaged, as it were, in inverted commas.
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The whole system floats, as it were, above the plane of observation and is anchored to it by the rules of interpretation.
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He has incredible reflexes, which, combined with his leaping powers, enable him to seemingly bounce off walls (ricochet, as it were).
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Such style elements also gave him the illusion of having, as it were, delivered his characters' destinies into their own keeping.
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We need to separate the chemistry of magic from the alchemy, as it were.
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However, where this has occurred, an annual taxation on refuse collection has been introduced or reintroduced as it were.
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Now right principles and virtue are as it were in a state of slumber.
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A boys' overnight bag as it were.
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