even as
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3.2
- idiom
:
justo cuando
- It's happening even as we speak.
- yet even as
- even as late as
- even as it becomes
Always, always away and near, even as they quietly move on.
- Always, always away and near, even as they quietly move on.
- Then you can stay even as it grows.
- And it's, but I will say I lived my life even as a young father.
- Unfortunately it was too late and even as I rushed to the doors they closed.
- I really had this full time job even as as a freshman in high school.
- Maybe they're in your stomach, a world you can't identify with even as it turns inside you.
- I, even as a young child, I knew to use sunscreen.
- He had a very high quality observatory even as a child that his father funded for him.
- We've seen how, you know, security continues to work even as it grows.
- But I feel it's my duty to erase the ending, even as I speak it.
- He envied them that even as he loved and pitied.
- And so where I would land on this is that even as we reform marriage.
Examples
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And we bless even as we have been blessed.
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Even as I speak, the chef has a team out scouring Manhattan for chives.
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And it's, but I will say I lived my life even as a young father.
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Then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
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The best answer he could produce was not good enough; he knew it even as he gave it.
Fiction book (1990) -
We often picture the emptiness as a desert, which is our destination even as we travel through it.
Academic text (1999) -
China has also sold gasoline to Iran even as other suppliers have had to halt their sales.
Academic text (2011) -
There are surprisingly few signs of social instability even as the financial crisis enters its fifth year.
Academic text (2011) -
And the otter skin still resists water, even as old as it is.
Fiction book (1990) -
Rescue teams kept up their efforts even as the ship sank from view.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
During the same time or moment
145
1.0
One action happens at the same time as another
32
2.5
Happening at the same time
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'at the very moment that' is directly compositional: 'as' signals temporal simultaneity (while/when) and 'even' adds emphasis or contrast, so together they convey ‘precisely/just as’ something happens. This is a regular modifier + conjunction pattern found across languages and should be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
Even as combines even ('exactly') and as ('while') to make a simple picture of two things lining up in time, like a bell ringing at the exact moment a clock strikes, so it means 'at the very moment that' or 'while'.