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as we speak
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as we speak and even as we speak
Cliché just now; at this very moment. "I'm sorry, sir," consoled the agent at the gate, "the plane is taking off as we speak." Tom: Waiter, where is my steak? It's taking a long time. Waiter: It is being grilled even as we speak, sir—just as you requested.
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Even as we speak, the junior Senator of the great state of Illinois also seeks the presidency, and if his ever-increasing prospects do not put Jim Crow behind us for good and all, what possibly can?
The number of Americans who are within the American obesity range are climbing higher even as we speak.
Speaking at the World Congress of the International Association of Youth and Family Judges and Magistrates, she said: "You could not have come to a more inspirational place for here, even as we speak, children are being born in Belfast's maternity hospitals.
 
 
 
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