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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

here we are en · X

Etymology

From here + we (“the speaker and the person being addressed”) + are.

Meanings

  1. Indicates ambivalence or resignation about the present circumstances; dismisses the previous observations as irrelevant.
    • And I don’t have a nose, and yet here we are. 2017, Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina, directors, Coco, spoken by Clerk (Gabriel Iglesias), Pixar:

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what's done is done · water under the bridge