as if
Also, as though. As it would be, as in He decided to accept, as if it really mattered, or John scowled as though he were really angry. The first idiom dates from the late 1500s, the variant from the late 1700s. Also see make as if.
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How to use as if in a sentence
It has all come to me so naturally, not as if I had had to work it out, but-as-if-I-remembered.
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