as well as
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In as satisfactory or good a way as. For example, After the operation, she was supposed to walk around as well as she could without limping . [c. 1400]
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To the same extent as, as much as. For example, He is an excellent teacher as well as being a fine musician . [c. 1440]
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In addition to, as in The editors as well as the proofreaders are working overtime . [c. 1700]
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A team working across Tyneside is doing tests to discover the impact the pellets, known as nurdles, have on animals, birds and fish, as well as the overall spread.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
The world's largest electronics contract manufacturer has gone beyond making low-margin iPhones to producing AI servers for US tech titan Nvidia, as well as electric vehicles and robots.
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026
Posner was a leader in the law-and-economics movement in the 1970s, urging courts to evaluate laws for their economic consequences, as well as fairness, and to fashion rulings mindful of the incentives they were creating.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
"On the one hand, it's evolving dark matter as well as the gas in the universe, and on the other, it's also tracking how radiation travels," Zier explains.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 12, 2026
During the final weeks of the pledge process, we learned songs that taught us our sense of mission as well as brought us closer to one another.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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