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Also, as to. With regard to, concerning. For example, As for dessert, I'd better skip it today and We are not sure as to how to pay the bill. A particularly well-known use of this idiom is in Patrick Henry's speech before the Virginia Convention in 1775: “As for me, give me liberty or give me death.” Also see as to.

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as far as, as far as I can see, as far as possible, as far as that goes, as follows, as for, Asgard, asgd., Ásgeirsson, asgmt., as good as

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Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
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There was no mistaking this for the gaudiness and gilt of made-for-TV awards shows.
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Given the potential for a cyber tit-for-tat to escalate, Obama has even more incentive to find a diplomatic solution.
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Twenty-five more for-profits are on well on their way to doing the same thing.
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Over the years, Crawford has been largely silent, speaking out only for an as-told-to obituary to Houston published in Esquire.
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The result of this stock-taking shows that eleven volumes were unaccounted-for, a list of which is appended.
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At this stock-taking the number unaccounted-for is twenty-two, several of which are quite recent accessions to the Library.
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Edna's desire to see Mademoiselle Reisz had increased tenfold since these unlooked-for obstacles had arisen to thwart it.
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They got all kinds of tony things–tomatoes and cucumbers and as-paragrass, and them little toadstool things.
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But no other instance of for-tened is known, nor yet of crece as short for increes (increase).
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