Synonyms for were
wɜr; unstressed wərwere

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1. List of paraphrases for "were":

   took, 'd, constituted

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1. Rudy Giuliani:

   I do not believe -- and I know this is a horrible thing to say -- but I do not believe that the president loves America, he doesn't love you. And he doesn't love me. He wasn't brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country.

2. Paul Matey:

   It's important to make clear for the record that I had no knowledge, involvement or participation in any of those events, we certainly took steps to ensure at all times that the highest standards of propriety, ethics and legality were followed in the office. Regrettably, that did not appear to happen in this case.

3. Zannah Mustapha:

   When I started there wasn't anything like the insurgency. The issue of Boko Haram was not even started. We( educated) children whose parent died of natural causes, in 2009, there was this insurgency of the Boko Haram and women and children were cast out in the street.

4. Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Roivas:

   We learnt a lot from the cyber attacks, we were already able to defend ourselves in 2007, but now we are so much more ready because of learning from those attacks.

5. Brad Pitt:

   It was that you were at NYU, and it was an acting coach, I believe.