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might as well1Used to make an unenthusiastic suggestion: I might as well begin...- We might as well begin our quest to improve Anglo-German relations at the very top.
- I suggest to her that they might as well stop giving out tickets for now.
- So I might as well stop trying to write novels in which real people move.
2Used to indicate that a situation is the same as if the hypothetical thing stated were true: for readers seeking illumination, this book might as well have been written in Serbo-Croatian...- Okay, that's not quite true, but it might as well be, because bubbly is everywhere in Reims.
- When that hate finds its way into the mainstream consciousness, it might as well be true.
- The planet is never named, because it might as well be the whole universe in this book.
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