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  1. 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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“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right,” he wrote External link in Resistance to Civil Government, the essay known as Civil Disobedience.

From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026

Their data categories, such as for managers, may have been too broad to tease out the effect of DEI.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

But the scrapbook may never be complete as for Tony, the goalposts keep moving.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

The chips will be used for Tesla’s humanoid robots, cars and data centers, as well as for SpaceX’s satellites.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

And as for her clothes...they were, to say the least, extremely odd.

From "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

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