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as with

  1. In the same way as.
    • 1847, “Chatelaines for Gentlemen”, in Punch, or The London Charivari, volume XVI (New Library Series), number 405, London: Punch Office, [], and Bradbury, Evans, & Co., [], →OCLC, page 153, column 1:
      A French fashion is now busy investing the large body of French gentlemen with Chatelaines. These do not hang, as with English ladies, from the waist, but from the waistcoat pocket. They are generally attached to the watch—or, supposing the gentleman has no such useful appendage for killing time, then they are fastened to the waistcoat-button, and allowed to dangle gracefully therefrom.
    • 1965, John Fowles, The Magus:
      In another minute there was no letter; but, as with every other relationship in my life, an eschar of ashes.
    • 2018, Linda K. Fuller, “Gendered Implications of Olympic and the Paralympic Events”, in Female Olympian and Paralympian Events: Analyses, Backgrounds, and Timelines, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer International Publishing, →DOI, →ISBN, page 15:
      Just as with the Olympic Games, Paralympian ones continue to change.

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