as it is
idiom
1
: in the present condition : the way it is
Leave everything exactly/just as it is.
2
: with the situation that exists now
We have enough to do as it is without your latest orders!
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The potential sale of Bird Key — or 1 Bird Key, as it is now listed on real estate websites — has set off a scramble to scrape together cash to keep the island just south of the 79th Street Causeway out of the hands of developers.
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Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 24 May 2024
Groundwater, which supplies most of the city’s water, is pumped out twice as fast as it is replenished, experts said.
—Somini Sengupta César Rodríguez, New York Times, 18 May 2024
Also, not everyone will love the taste, as it is sweetened with stevia.
—Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 17 May 2024
The data generated anywhere on the Internet can be packaged and sold to foreign (or domestic) adversaries so long as it is tracked.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 8 May 2024
Baughman McLeod added that local governments interested in improving their response to intensifying heat should also work to improve data around heat's effects on health and community, as it is poorly understood.
—Kate Cimini, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
This Saturday is a big day for those who partake in weed, pot, reefer, ganja, Mary Jane, the devil’s lettuce or as it is most commonly known: marijuana.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2024
Another option is to shoot the environment around you as it is darkened as the eclipse reaches totality.
—Scott Neuman, NPR, 3 Apr. 2024
The Dalmatian coast is as beautiful as it is overloaded, so head further inland to Bosnia and Herzegovina instead (and return to Croatia’s shoreline in the shoulder season, when temperatures are cooler and crowds are fewer).
—Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Apr. 2024
Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 24 May 2024
Groundwater, which supplies most of the city’s water, is pumped out twice as fast as it is replenished, experts said.
—Somini Sengupta César Rodríguez, New York Times, 18 May 2024
Also, not everyone will love the taste, as it is sweetened with stevia.
—Melissa Nieves, Verywell Health, 17 May 2024
The data generated anywhere on the Internet can be packaged and sold to foreign (or domestic) adversaries so long as it is tracked.
—Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 8 May 2024
Baughman McLeod added that local governments interested in improving their response to intensifying heat should also work to improve data around heat's effects on health and community, as it is poorly understood.
—Kate Cimini, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
This Saturday is a big day for those who partake in weed, pot, reefer, ganja, Mary Jane, the devil’s lettuce or as it is most commonly known: marijuana.
—Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2024
Another option is to shoot the environment around you as it is darkened as the eclipse reaches totality.
—Scott Neuman, NPR, 3 Apr. 2024
The Dalmatian coast is as beautiful as it is overloaded, so head further inland to Bosnia and Herzegovina instead (and return to Croatia’s shoreline in the shoulder season, when temperatures are cooler and crowds are fewer).
—Olivia Morelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Apr. 2024
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