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The motions of the stars also exhibited a similar 24 hour period, as though the heavenly canopy rotated throughout the night.
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Big Think, 30 Oct. 2025
During the clip, the dog can be seen peeking its head through the gap in the chairs, as though offering Sophie support.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
Even the White House Historical Association, with a caution that has become typical of this dark time, confines itself to stating that it has been allowed to make a digital record of what’s being destroyed—as though that were a defense, rather than an epitaph.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
Your heart rate spikes, the stress hormone cortisol surges, and your system reacts as though the threat of the monsters were real.
—Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
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Big Think, 30 Oct. 2025
During the clip, the dog can be seen peeking its head through the gap in the chairs, as though offering Sophie support.
—Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
Even the White House Historical Association, with a caution that has become typical of this dark time, confines itself to stating that it has been allowed to make a digital record of what’s being destroyed—as though that were a defense, rather than an epitaph.
—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
Your heart rate spikes, the stress hormone cortisol surges, and your system reacts as though the threat of the monsters were real.
—Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
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“As though.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/as%20though. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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