seeing that

Idioms  

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.

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So, seeing that play out in the public sphere only validates that concern.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

One day scholars will teach Lepore’s work alongside Arendt’s, seeing that Lepore interrogates not simply a modern moment, but traces our current machine age back to the 17th-century conceit for artifice as improvement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

"Embarrassing, seeing that sort of stuff after the game has been played," said BBC pundit Wayne Rooney.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

“Japan is finally seeing that its companies are getting pricing power because of the exit from deflation,” Jimmy Chang, chief investment officer at Rockefeller Global Family Office, said in an interview.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

“Let’s see. Well, seeing that today certainly is my day—why don’t you call me Wednesday? Mister Wednesday. Although given the weather, it might as well be Thursday, eh?”

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman

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