: in addition to : besides
the coach, as well as the team, is ready
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Preposition
we offer electronic toys as well as rent out video games
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Katy Siegel, Artforum, 2 June 2026
State health departments will continue to conduct daily symptom monitoring, as well as 24/7 continuous oversight of each person, and provide guidance through the remainder of the 42-day monitoring period, which will end June 21.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 2 June 2026
Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 22 Mar. 2023
But shearwaters, as well as petrels and albatrosses, are part of a class known as tube-nosed seabirds, with tubular nostrils and an excellent senses of smell.
—Matthew Savoca, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2023
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Conjunction
The rapidly ballooning market of the 1980s accommodated both kinds of art—art that might have been called critical, as well as art that might have been termed complicit, Pictures artists and neo-expressionists alike.
—Katy Siegel, Artforum, 2 June 2026
State health departments will continue to conduct daily symptom monitoring, as well as 24/7 continuous oversight of each person, and provide guidance through the remainder of the 42-day monitoring period, which will end June 21.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 2 June 2026
Preposition
Overview Few cars are capable of serving the gods of both comfort and sportiness as well as the 2023 BMW 3-series sedan.
—Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 22 Mar. 2023
But shearwaters, as well as petrels and albatrosses, are part of a class known as tube-nosed seabirds, with tubular nostrils and an excellent senses of smell.
—Matthew Savoca, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2023
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“As well as.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/as%20well%20as. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.
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