which is to say
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: which means that
Her eyes are hazel, which is to say they are greenish brown.
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Fizzy cocktails crowd two-top tables, while bubbly chatter floats up the brick walls toward hanging paper lanterns that cast the exact right amount of light — which is to say, not much — for a moody, intimate atmosphere.
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Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
My mother, the unrealized artist who loved artists because artists expressed themselves, was making my dress in the name of art, which is to say, also in my name.
—Hilton Als, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
All of which is to say: congratulations, Denis Villeneuve!
—Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 28 June 2025
But the golf course lived up to expectation, which is to say difficult.
—Kendall Capps, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 June 2025
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Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
My mother, the unrealized artist who loved artists because artists expressed themselves, was making my dress in the name of art, which is to say, also in my name.
—Hilton Als, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
All of which is to say: congratulations, Denis Villeneuve!
—Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 28 June 2025
But the golf course lived up to expectation, which is to say difficult.
—Kendall Capps, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 June 2025
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“Which is to say.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/which%20is%20to%20say. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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