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even as

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

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As so many celebrities embrace GLP-1s for weight loss — either quietly or publicly — or just suddenly appear smaller, our culture’s desire to be skinny is exposed again, even as our rhetoric had seemingly shifted. Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 6 Dec. 2025 For now, too, the tape has encouragingly loosened its linkage to crypto prices, which remain close to recent lows even as the equity indexes have largely reclaimed their losses. Michael Santoli, CNBC, 6 Dec. 2025 What Happens Next Diplomatic meetings aimed at ending the nearly four-year war were to continue, even as ongoing routine missile strikes and large-scale attacks show no sign of letting up. Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2025 Yet the share of Russian arms imports to India has halved in recent years, even as Moscow remains New Delhi’s largest arms supplier. Harsh V. Pant, Time, 5 Dec. 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 9 Dec. 2025.

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