as though

Idioms  

1. see as if.

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as though

The photographer Ian Berry later told the BBC that it seemed the man in the centre of this picture was holding his jacket up "as though to protect himself from the bullets"

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

No provider separates the companies buying for themselves from the hosts renting the same chips out again, so the proportion is unknown from outside, and the market prices it as though the answer were zero.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

The voices of the characters come through as though we’re eavesdropping from a discreet distance on their banter and squabbles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Lavallee said she couldn’t comment directly on the matter and instead underscored Voya’s “robust” investor engagement program, explaining, “We constantly run the company as though we are looking at it from an outside-in perspective.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

“Why you’d want to go back in time to change something. All those people,” she said, shutting her eyes as though she could unsee it all that way.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin