as if

1. 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.

Example Sentences

She has little desire to promote her hard-charging employee to a higher position at her boutique talent management company, but speaks to Maia as if they’re best friends.

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However, Wolvaardt looked as if she had packed up the Guwahati pitch and carried on with a net session, batting with such fluency and elegance which planted seeds of doubt in the captivated crowd.

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This was his theme, over and over, as if critics were demanding he hand over his faith and patriotism to Israel.

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Fictional representations of time travel underscore this: time travelers alter events and disrupt the timeline, as if past and future events were locations one could visit with the right technology.

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Overwhelmed by the moment, Yamamoto didn’t sound as if he grasped the magnitude of what he’d just done.

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