which is to say
idiom
: which means that
Her eyes are hazel, which is to say they are greenish brown.
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First item of business: The Vale and the North are not responding to voice mails (which is to say, ravens) asking for their allegiance.
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Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
His was evidently a hereditary form of the disease and, given its incidence in Les’s family, almost certainly an autosomal dominant form, which is to say a form that would be quite likely to manifest in his children.
—Scott Sayare Robert Petkoff Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 14 June 2024
To play it well, five people—which is to say, a group roughly the size of a rock band, a hunting party, or a nuclear family—must move together in a way that can be improvised in real time.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 13 June 2024
Naturally, because construction runs at its own speed, which is to say no speed whatsoever, the project took twice as long as expected.
—Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 13 June 2024
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Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
His was evidently a hereditary form of the disease and, given its incidence in Les’s family, almost certainly an autosomal dominant form, which is to say a form that would be quite likely to manifest in his children.
—Scott Sayare Robert Petkoff Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 14 June 2024
To play it well, five people—which is to say, a group roughly the size of a rock band, a hunting party, or a nuclear family—must move together in a way that can be improvised in real time.
—Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 13 June 2024
Naturally, because construction runs at its own speed, which is to say no speed whatsoever, the project took twice as long as expected.
—Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 13 June 2024
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