: 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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Big Think, 20 Feb. 2026
He also was suspected in a nearby burglary in Burley to fund his addiction in the weeks before Whitney Murphy’s death, as well as another years later at a home in Eugene, Oregon, in 2021, the defense said.
—Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 20 Feb. 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
And within that galaxy, not only will stars live-and-die, and not only will star-formation cease once all of the gas has been consumed, but gravitational interactions will eject most of those stellar corpses, as well as the planet remnants that orbit them.
—Big Think, 20 Feb. 2026
He also was suspected in a nearby burglary in Burley to fund his addiction in the weeks before Whitney Murphy’s death, as well as another years later at a home in Eugene, Oregon, in 2021, the defense said.
—Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 20 Feb. 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 22 Feb. 2026.
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