Word info

being that

Conjunction

Meaning

being that

(informal) since or because.
Being that it's midnight, let's go home.
Synonyms: given that, seeing that, since; see also Thesaurus:because

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Being that can be understood is language. Hans-Georg Gadamer

The peculiar foreign superstition that the English do not like love, the evidence being that they do not talk about it. V. S. Pritchett

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The more I learnt about this cheeky – almost rebellious – company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed to an alternative in a complacent and creatively bankrupt industry. Apple stood for something and had reason for being that wasn't just about making money. Jonathan Ive

Urban people, of course, are terribly scared nowadays. They may yearn for society, but it is risky to go around talking to strangers, for a lot of reasons, one being that people are so accustomed not to have many human contacts that they are afraid they may find out they really prefer life that way. Russell Baker

The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective. Raymond Chandler

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