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pass for

verb

Definitions

  1. To be mistakenly seen as something that one is not

    • When I visited the offices in March, the walls were bare, the furniture battered. With the addition of a dead plant, the suite could pass for a graduate-student lounge.

  2. To be sufficient, especially minimally so, for a specified purpose.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pass for. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA