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Recent Examples of as if
So Chase sent Ochocinco to line up, as if getting into a route.
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Luca Evans, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025
Their memories and ways of being will be descended from our own, as surely as if they had been gestated in a human womb and raised by a human family, which will be the reality of their own creation stories and myths.
—Rick Tumlinson, Space.com, 25 Sep. 2025
But from middle age to retirement age of 65, there is considerable loss, and then the loss steepens in the 70s as if falling off a cliff.
—Bryant Stamford, Louisville Courier Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
Use a spatula to fold egg mixture under sides of frittata as if preparing an omelet.
—Judy Bart Kancigor, Oc Register, 25 Sep. 2025
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Luca Evans, Denver Post, 26 Sep. 2025
Their memories and ways of being will be descended from our own, as surely as if they had been gestated in a human womb and raised by a human family, which will be the reality of their own creation stories and myths.
—Rick Tumlinson, Space.com, 25 Sep. 2025
But from middle age to retirement age of 65, there is considerable loss, and then the loss steepens in the 70s as if falling off a cliff.
—Bryant Stamford, Louisville Courier Journal, 25 Sep. 2025
Use a spatula to fold egg mixture under sides of frittata as if preparing an omelet.
—Judy Bart Kancigor, Oc Register, 25 Sep. 2025
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“As if.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/as%20if. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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