seeing that

1. Also, seeing as or seeing as how. In view of, inasmuch as. For example, Seeing that you're coming anyhow, I decided not to take notes for you, or Seeing as they liked her first book, they were sure to make a good offer for the second one. The first expression was used by Shakespeare in Julius Caesar (2:2): “Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.“ The variants are colloquialisms and are recorded from the second half of the 1900s, although they probably have been in much longer use orally.

Example Sentences

I didn't mind seeing that, because Salah is no different from any other player - if he is not performing, you drop him.

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She said seeing that many people gathered in the streets took her back to her childhood.

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Then the director replays the scene, but with a different beginning: On seeing that he has damaged his schoolmate’s notebook, the first boy repairs the rip, thus not only avoiding the escalating violence, but also preserving the friendship.

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"Seeing that our work helped sharply reduce deaths from cancer and heart disease, I realized the impact reaches far beyond our study to millions in Bangladesh and beyond now drinking water low in arsenic," said Joseph Graziano, Professor Emeritus at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health and principal investigator of the NIH-funded program.

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The greatest thrill now is seeing that young people really do connect with the record.

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