gleichsam

Other ways to say it

• alsoso, therefore
• gewissermaßenin a way
• insgleichenlikewise
• quasias it were, so to speak, effectively, essentially; used to mark a description as figurative, simplified or otherwise not to be taken as abs…; as good as, basically, virtually, more or less; used to describe a process or change of state that has not been technically completed, but…
• sozusagenso to speak, in a manner of speaking