As and But

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As conjunction - In spite of the fact that.

Usage example: silly as it sounds, that's exactly the way that it happened

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But and as are semantically related. In some cases you can use "But" instead a conjunction "As".

But adverb - And nothing more.

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As and but are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "As" instead a conjunction "But".

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