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prep. (context idiomatic English) from, at, or until a specified time
Usage examples of "as of".
The shadow was of proportions that hardly could have belonged to anyone else but Frank Imberline.
But there had been no doubt in Sharon's mind: the body in the car, the body that was now in their morgue, was of her husband.
They seemed to be telling her that someone had been shot, shot on Poplar Street, and that was of course fantastic.
He had done okay at BU for a while, then had flunked out in his junior year, as much a victim of obsessive bridge-playing as of booze and Panama Red.
Shortly before Christmas of 1995, he retired and moved to Clearwater, Florida, where he died of a heart attack on September 19th, 1996.
There is another shattering double crash, and again that long, wailing shriek, as of a bomb falling dead-center-true down the gravity-well toward its target.
Do it as often as you have to, but make her stop screaming at the Emperor.
The ship was well appointed, although she was of a slightly alien configuration.
She'd always suspected he hadn't kept the dog as a pet in the usual sensemore as a specimen, a semi-intelligent organism whose behavior was of interest to him.
Its body was of black anodized aluminum, tapering from four feet wide at the base to two feet at the top, where video and audio scanners sprouted from a plastic dome.
I can also modify the stimuli you receive, in any way you want, or I can use direct access, via a low-level interpreter, to areas of your brain such as the hypothalamus, where a change in voltage can manipulate your mood in much the same way that drugs can affect a human brain.
The view from the window was of a wall of cinderblocks ten feet away, painted brown.
He caught a blurred glimpse of Morgen plunging out through the hall, and squeezed the trigger of his automatic for a snap shot, but he was off balance and moving and it hadn't a chance.
He knew that that wasn't in line with the most earnest pleas of the Department of Justicebut Simon Templar had always had an indecorous disdain for such appeals.
He was that new and fascinating evolution of the primitive tycoon who simply worked at the job of being a millionaire, as un-excitedly as other men worked at the job of being bricklayers, and probably with no more grandiose ideas of his place in the engine of civilisation.