Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Contraction of it was.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A contraction of it was.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A contraction of
it was .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- phrase
it was
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Examples
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Oda subsequently misled to a Parliamentary committee about her hands-on disfigurement of the document, claiming she'd no idea who had doctored the material, then last week - memory miraculously jogged - owned up to the doctoring, suddenly recalling, oh yeah, 'twas me.
Thestar.com - Home Page Rosie DiManno 2011
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Oda subsequently misled to a Parliamentary committee about her hands-on disfigurement of the document, claiming she'd no idea who had doctored the material, then last week - memory miraculously jogged - owned up to the doctoring, suddenly recalling, oh yeah, 'twas me.
Thestar.com - Home Page Rosie DiManno 2011
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