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that 1. Connecting noun clause (as involving reported speech etc.); introducing a subordinate noun clause. He told me that the book is a good read. 2. (archaic) Introducing a hypothetical fact or supposition: ‘given that’, ‘as would appear from the fact that’. * 1623, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors: What, are you mad, that you doe reason so? 3. With antecedent so or such: introducing the result of the main clause. * 2008, Zoe Williams, The Guardian, 23 May 2008: My dad apparently always said that no child of his would ever be harassed for its poor eating habits, and then I arrived, and I was so disgusting that he revised his opinion. 4. Without any antecedent: so that.
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