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as though

conjunction

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the way it would be or one would do if the applause was so great it was as though the toddler's dance class had been the Bolshoi Ballet

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Recent Examples of as though Pointing to the responses from the town hall meetings, Trustee Horn said more than a third of Mansfield residents didn’t feel as though their voices were being heard in district matters. — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Oct. 2026 The medieval abbey of Normandy’s Mont Saint-Michel, a tidal island only accessible at certain times each day, stretched from the lapping waves as though reaching for Heaven. — Ellen O’Connell Whittet, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026 The pipelines for each streamer have kept pumping as though no massive change was coming. — ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026 Over an untucked ecru button-up and straight-legged navy trousers, D’Arcy wore a gravity-defying blazer, looking as though they got caught in a gust of wind. — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 7 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for as though

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