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Also, seeing as or seeing as how . In view of, inasmuch as. For example, Seeing that you're coming anyhow, I decided not to take notes for you , or Seeing as they liked her first book, they were sure to make a good offer for the second one . The first expression was used by Shakespeare in Julius Caesar (2:2): “Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.“ The variants are colloquialisms and are recorded from the second half of the 1900s, although they probably have been in much longer use orally.

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"I was hoping. . . he would approach things a little bit differently seeing that he's a little seasoned coming into a second term," Mr DeMonaco told the BBC.

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"If you get a vulnerability in one system, where does that eventually appear in every other system it connects to? Where are we seeing that link between them? That's where I would be looking for these kinds of flaws."

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“Something catches their eye and they say, ‘I remember seeing that in such-and-such place with such-and-such person at such-and-such time, and this was moving for me in that way.’

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"We are seeing that heightened stress around examinations and assessments and then, if we are seeing that increase in students going to work part-time while they study, all of this bubbles in together at one of the most crucial periods of their time at university."

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Matt Shupe is communications director for the California Republican Party, meaning his job is seeing that partisan hopes spring eternal.

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