good as, as

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as good as

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Idioms and Phrases

Practically, in effect, almost the same as, as in He as good as promised to buy a new car , or The house is as good as sold . This idiom is very widely used to modify just about any verb, adverb, or adjective. However, it has been used so often with certain words that together they themselves now make up idioms (see the following entries beginning with good as ).

Example Sentences

And the output of these tools is only as good as their algorithms and the initial images used to train the large language models.

From Science Daily

While generative AI can help deliver personalised travel itineraries and recommendations, it is only as good as the information it is trained on, and where this information is out of date, biased, erroneous, false and so on, then the AI will perpetuate the misinformation, points out Caroline Bremmer, head of travel and tourism research at analysts Euromonitor International.

From BBC

“Get the strip-sack inside the 20, the offense goes down and scores. Man, that’s about as good as it gets.”

From Los Angeles Times

And all the time, the Six Nations, renewed rivalries with the northern hemisphere's best and fears England are just not as good as we thought, lurk like Etzebeth around a breakdown.

From BBC

He says he wants to show that Sherpas are as good as climbers from any other country.

From NewsForKids.net

Related Words

• about
• approximately
• around
• essentially
• most
• much
• practically
• relatively
• roughly
• virtually