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even as

idiom

: at the same time as
They are finishing the job even as we speak.

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Jekielek addressed the dismissal of Comey's case, giving Patel a chance to reveal that the administration is looking at other options in their case against Comey even as the appeals process plays out. Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2025 The law functions as an invisible framework, ensuring that the overall balance of fragments – how many are large versus small – remains constrained even as an object breaks. Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 29 Nov. 2025 But even as Taiwan’s economy flourishes, driven by the outsized influence of its high-tech sector as exemplified by the world-beating chipmaker TSMC, many citizens have been unable to share in the boom, as income gaps widen and wages remain stagnant. John Liu, CNN Money, 28 Nov. 2025 With these devices on our daughters’ wrists, our children feel a part of the world of portable, personal technology, even as the devices offer them just modest access to that world. Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for even as

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“Even as.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/even%20as. Accessed 4 Dec. 2025.

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