so be it

1. Let it be so, I accept it as it is. For example, If you can't change the reservation, so be it; I'll travel on Monday. This phrase, often given as a translation of the Hebrew (and Greek and Latin) amen, has been employed in the current sense since about 1600.

Example Sentences

“It’s clear that clients in the U.S. are moving. If that’s because the politics of the space is changing, so be it,” Glass Lewis CEO Bob Mann told the Responsible Investor news-site.

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Hegseth shrugged at the prospect of more restrictive fitness tests disqualifying women who are currently serving capably and with honor from combat jobs — “So be it,” he said — while also celebrating that his envisioned standards would also mean “weak” men won’t qualify.

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"If it means no women qualify for combat jobs, then so be it," he said.

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“If that means no women qualify for some combat jobs, so be it,” he said.

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“Sometimes a jury will buy it and sometimes they won’t. So be it. That’s the way the process works.”

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