いわば
Meanings
Adverb
Usually written in kana
1. so to speak; so to call it; as it were; in a sense
So to speak, the flock moves as a single organism.
Pitch accent
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Examples (21 in total)
This time is, so to speak, an exception.
I was an outsider, so to speak.
He is, so to speak, a walking dictionary.