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as things stand

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as things stand

As a situation is at this time. As things stand, we'll have 12 people at dinner tonight. Will you please apologize to Dottie? As things stand now, she's really mad at you.

See also: stand, thing

as things stand

as the situation is As things stand now, I can't imagine we'll be ready to leave until Friday at the earliest.

Related vocabulary: as it stands

See also: stand, thing