English-Dutch translations for as it were

als het ware
Wetten zijn als het ware ons hoofdproduct. Law is, as it were, our main product. Dat is als het ware onze verzekering voor de toekomst. That is as it were the icing on the cake. We moeten als het ware op de grote resetknop drukken. We must press the large reset button, as it were.

She gave all of the women seated at the restaurant food for thought, as it were
Concerns that cloud seeding might “steal” water from an area a cloud is traveling toward—robbing Peter to water Paul, as it were—have been dispelled

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