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  1. how so: Merriam-Webster
  2. how so: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. how so, how so: Collins English Dictionary
  4. how so: Wiktionary
  5. how so, how so: Dictionary.com
  6. how so: TheFreeDictionary.com
  7. how so: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. How so, how so: Idioms

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  1. How So: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (how so)

▸ adverb:  How; In what way; however
▸ adverb:  (idiomatic) Why; For what reason.
▸ adverb:  Used as an intensifier.

Similar:
howso, wherein, however, everyhow, suchwise, whatever, what, this way, anyhow, howsoever, more...

Opposite:
why not, why no

Phrases:
How Did We Get So Dark?, more...

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Similar:
howso, wherein, however, everyhow, suchwise, whatever, what, this way, anyhow, howsoever, more...

Opposite:
why not, why no

Phrases:
How Did We Get So Dark?, more...



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