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  • noun Plural form of is-a.

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Examples

  • If you want to rub elbows with Punxsutawney Phil it's essential that you get to Gobbler's Knob-that's where his house is-as early as possible.

    Jaunted - The Pop Culture Travel Guide 2010

  • If you want to rub elbows with Punxsutawney Phil it's essential that you get to Gobbler's Knob-that's where his house is-as early as possible.

    Jaunted - The Pop Culture Travel Guide 2010

  • Marriage is-as I said before-a deeply religious and meaningful experience for many folks whose religion also calls out, castigates, and ostracizes the act and lifestyles that define homosexuality.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2008

  • Then my blood would be on your hands - more than it already is-as well as that of your four dear friends.

    Dance Of Death Preston, Douglas 2005

  • Of the above-mentioned general lines of argument, that concerned with Amplification is-as has been already said-most appropriate to ceremonial speeches; that concerned with the Past, to forensic speeches, where the required decision is always about the past; that concerned with Possibility and the Future, to political speeches.

    Rhetoric Aristotle 2002

  • It is called a watch, so called after a period of guard, which is-as you know-also a watch.

    Starship Aldiss, Brian 1959

  • But INTRINSICALLY, just qua happiness, it is-if it is-as good.

    Problems of Conduct Durant Drake

  • The cause is, however, explicable; to sing is-as natural to man as to speak, and uncivilized nations are not likely to speculate whether singing has ever been invented.

    Brave Men and Women Fuller, O E 1884

  • On the other hand, if God is "of a reasonable soul and human flesh subsisting," and if he thus has the body without which he is-as far as we are concerned-non-existent, this body must yet be reasonably like other bodies, and must exist in some place and at some time.

    God the Known and God the Unknown Samuel Butler 1868

  • The cause is, however, explicable; to sing is-as natural to man as to speak, and uncivilized nations are not likely to speculate whether singing has ever been invented.

    Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs 1867

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