as to

Idioms  

1. According to, as in They were asked to sort the costumes as to color . [Mid-1700s]

2. See as for .

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Example Sentences

Vance is asked to settle a debate as to whether a hot dog can be considered a sandwich.

From Slate

As for Buffett, there is some anxiety, as to be expected, over how able Abel will be.

From Barron's

"The idea is to fire two single particles of light from separate ground stations to a satellite orbiting 500 km above Earth, traveling at about 20,000 km per hour, so that they meet so perfectly as to undergo quantum interference. Is this even possible?" said Professor Devitt.

From Science Daily

The Justice Department’s filing in federal court Wednesday said the pilots of an Army Black Hawk helicopter “failed to maintain vigilance so as to see and avoid” an American Airlines regional jet.

From The Wall Street Journal

“The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt,” Orwell wrote, “is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet to be fully alive.”

From The Wall Street Journal