seeing that

Idioms and Phrases

Also, seeing as or seeing as how . In view of, inasmuch as. For example, Seeing that you're coming anyhow, I decided not to take notes for you , or Seeing as they liked her first book, they were sure to make a good offer for the second one . The first expression was used by Shakespeare in Julius Caesar (2:2): “Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.“ The variants are colloquialisms and are recorded from the second half of the 1900s, although they probably have been in much longer use orally.

Example Sentences

"So that was puzzling at the beginning. I remember Marco came in and told me once that the experiment worked, but only in half of the plate. And when we looked at it more carefully, we started seeing that there was a gradient of cell density that seemed to correlate with differences in patterning."

From Science Daily

What were we seeing that the mainstream news media and commentariat types — especially the professional centrists — were not?

From Salon

Luke Cowan-Dickie played well when he came on but sometimes there is value in seeing that game out, rather than looking at the stats, which might be saying his heartrate is through the roof or his sprint speed is down so he needs to come off.

From BBC

"We already know that abusive leadership takes a serious toll on workers -- but now we're seeing that leaders who swing back and forth between abusive and ethical leadership do even more damage to employees," says Dr. Haoying Xu, the study's lead author and an assistant professor of management in the Stevens School of Business.

From Science Daily

A generation grew up seeing that marriage equality helped many and harmed no one.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• because
• since