such as
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Pronunciation
Audio (Mid-Atlantic US): (file)
Preposition
- For example.
- Waterbirds, such as the duck or the gull, are common in the area.
- 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […]”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
- The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.
- Like, of the kind mentioned.
- I was never in a country such as that.
- A plan such as you propose will never succeed.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:
- No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or […] . And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.
Usage notes
In the sense of “for example”, such as is preferred to like in formal writing.
Synonyms
- (for example): for example, for instance, e.g., like
Translations
for example — see for example
like
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