as it is
idiom
1
: in the present condition : the way it is
Leave everything exactly/just as it is.
2
: with the situation that exists now
We have enough to do as it is without your latest orders!
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The data generated anywhere on the Internet can be packaged and sold to foreign (or domestic) adversaries so long as it is tracked.
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Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 8 May 2024
Baughman McLeod added that local governments interested in improving their response to intensifying heat should also work to improve data around heat's effects on health and community, as it is poorly understood.
—Kate Cimini, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
This Saturday is a big day for those who partake in weed, pot, reefer, ganja, Mary Jane, the devil’s lettuce or as it is most commonly known: marijuana.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2024
Another option is to shoot the environment around you as it is darkened as the eclipse reaches totality.
—Scott Neuman, NPR, 3 Apr. 2024
The Dalmatian coast is as beautiful as it is overloaded, so head further inland to Bosnia and Herzegovina instead (and return to Croatia’s shoreline in the shoulder season, when temperatures are cooler and crowds are fewer).
—Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Apr. 2024
But if the Fed decides to lower interest rates sometime this year, as it is heavily expected to, mortgage rates will follow — and that could send demand, and prices, soaring.
—Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2024
While these incidents made headlines, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece was unharmed, as it is protected by bulletproof glass.
—Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
NeurIPS, as it is known, is focused on advances in neural networks, which have anchored recent developments in generative A.I.
The talent imbalance has been building for the better part of a decade.
—Cade Metz, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 8 May 2024
Baughman McLeod added that local governments interested in improving their response to intensifying heat should also work to improve data around heat's effects on health and community, as it is poorly understood.
—Kate Cimini, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
This Saturday is a big day for those who partake in weed, pot, reefer, ganja, Mary Jane, the devil’s lettuce or as it is most commonly known: marijuana.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2024
Another option is to shoot the environment around you as it is darkened as the eclipse reaches totality.
—Scott Neuman, NPR, 3 Apr. 2024
The Dalmatian coast is as beautiful as it is overloaded, so head further inland to Bosnia and Herzegovina instead (and return to Croatia’s shoreline in the shoulder season, when temperatures are cooler and crowds are fewer).
—Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Apr. 2024
But if the Fed decides to lower interest rates sometime this year, as it is heavily expected to, mortgage rates will follow — and that could send demand, and prices, soaring.
—Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2024
While these incidents made headlines, Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece was unharmed, as it is protected by bulletproof glass.
—Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
NeurIPS, as it is known, is focused on advances in neural networks, which have anchored recent developments in generative A.I.
The talent imbalance has been building for the better part of a decade.
—Cade Metz, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
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