which is to say
idiom
: which means that
Her eyes are hazel, which is to say they are greenish brown.
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All of which is to say that the good times rolled all the way through.
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Sam Amick, New York Times, 22 June 2025
But ivermectin advocacy is most disturbing in its totalizing form, wherein parasites—which is to say, the pathogens against which the drug truly is effective—are reimagined as the secret cause of many other unrelated problems.
—Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 17 June 2025
Schaffer, on the other hand, is responsible for some of the past two decades’ best comedy, which is to say, some of the best work to exist in the legacy of The Naked Gun.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 16 June 2025
In Henry King’s Jesse James (1939), Jesse and Frank, that is Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda, which is to say their stunt doubles, ride their horses over a cliff and tumble 70 feet into the Lake of the Ozarks.
—Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 14 June 2025
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Sam Amick, New York Times, 22 June 2025
But ivermectin advocacy is most disturbing in its totalizing form, wherein parasites—which is to say, the pathogens against which the drug truly is effective—are reimagined as the secret cause of many other unrelated problems.
—Benjamin Mazer, The Atlantic, 17 June 2025
Schaffer, on the other hand, is responsible for some of the past two decades’ best comedy, which is to say, some of the best work to exist in the legacy of The Naked Gun.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 16 June 2025
In Henry King’s Jesse James (1939), Jesse and Frank, that is Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda, which is to say their stunt doubles, ride their horses over a cliff and tumble 70 feet into the Lake of the Ozarks.
—Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 14 June 2025
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“Which is to say.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/which%20is%20to%20say. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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