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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Rose Park, as it is commonly known, is undergoing renovations that will include an expansion and numerous new amenities.
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Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 July 2024
The cocktail—gin and lemon juice, electrified with champagne—is equally at home in enthusiastic toasts on New Years Eve as it is deployed into eager hands on a normal Sunday brunch.
—Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 11 July 2024
The chances of flying the first operational Starliner mission early next year, as it is currently scheduled, appear to be fading.
—Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 10 July 2024
Bodet depicts both figures as simultaneously of their time and outside of it, and this unresolved ambiguity lends the movie a tone, combining intellectual earnestness and screwball comedy, that’s as audacious and distinctive as it is deftly sustained.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 July 2024
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Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 July 2024
The cocktail—gin and lemon juice, electrified with champagne—is equally at home in enthusiastic toasts on New Years Eve as it is deployed into eager hands on a normal Sunday brunch.
—Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 11 July 2024
The chances of flying the first operational Starliner mission early next year, as it is currently scheduled, appear to be fading.
—Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 10 July 2024
Bodet depicts both figures as simultaneously of their time and outside of it, and this unresolved ambiguity lends the movie a tone, combining intellectual earnestness and screwball comedy, that’s as audacious and distinctive as it is deftly sustained.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 July 2024
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