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What does as it were mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word as it were? Here's what it means.

Adverb
  1. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see as,‎ it,‎ were.
  2. Used to indicate that a word or statement is perhaps not exact though practically right; as if it were so.
  3. Used to draw attention to the use of a metaphor, sometimes to prevent confusion or to highlight wordplay.
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It ought to make its judicature, as it were, something exterior to the State.
They were being herded, corralled, and lassoed, as it were, by high-tech means.
I guess economists can be a bit specialized but I was once a High School economics teacher so I speak the lingo, as it were.
Hearing these expressions the audience is, as it were, invited to read the scene informed by an Africanist perspective.
There is nothing humble in living below our best, apologizing, as it were, for our existence.
Now you will not have read this, so I am going to, as it were, just read out the bits which are applicable.

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