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Definition 2024
as_it_is
as it is
English
Adverb
- Used other than as an idiom: see as, it, is.
- In the actual circumstances (and often contrary to expectations).
- 2004 Fall, Kit Coyne Irwin, “Blind Spot”, in The Kenyon Review, volume 26, number 4, page 108:
- The roosters would look awesome, their beaks fearsome weapons. A frightening thought. As it is, each rooster needed to be tethered to his own hut to keep them from pecking each other's eyes out.
- 2008, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, A dangerous climate:
- Had you not been wearing such a fine boot, your leg probably would have broken. As it is, the bruise is a deep one.
- 2011 March 14, “Search And Rescue Continues In Japan Disaster”, in Talk of the Nation:
- As it is, Tokyo is relatively unaffected.
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- Already.
- 2010, David Zimmerman, The Sandbox:
- Right now it is too dangerous to obsess about such things. It will only make life harder, and life is hard enough as it is.
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Translations
in the actual circumstances
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already
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