Wiktionary
adv. 1 (&lit as it is English) 2 In the actual circumstances (and often contrary to expectations). 3 Already.
WordNet
adv. in the actual state of affairs and often contrary to expectations; "he might have been killed; as it is he was severely injured"
Wikipedia
As It Is is an album by drummer Peter Erskine featuring pianist John Taylor and bassist Palle Danielsson recorded in 1995 and released on the ECM label
As It Is (often stylized as ΛS IT IS or Λ\\) is a British pop punk band based in Brighton, England. The band was formed in 2012 and signed to Fearless Records on 2 October 2014. The group consists of lead vocalist Patty Walters, guitarist and vocalist Ben Biss, guitarist Andy Westhead, bassist Alistair Testo, and drummer Patrick Foley.
The band has released four EPs and one album, titled Never Happy, Ever After, which was released by Fearless Records on 20 of April 2015 in Europe and on 21 April 2015 in the US.
Usage examples of "as it is".
Steve has a sudden urge, as strong as it is unaccustomed, to go next door and find that little girl.
It was late in the summer and the river was not as high as it is in the spring.
She had obviously now, as it is said, deep in her body, begun to feel her collar.
She, noble creature, so marvelous in her temptations and beauties, with the excellences of her mind and the determined prides of her heart, how strange that she, so much prizing her freedom, is made whole only as it is ruthlessly swept from her, that the true totality of her response, the fullness of her ecstasy is the yielding and the surrender, and the more delicious and incontrovertible the more complete.