Both Uses
veritable
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Looking for Alaska
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- The dusty wooden floor creaked as I made my way to the counter, and I saw a large barrel filled with brackish water that purported to contain LIVE BAIT, but in fact contained a veritable school of dead, floating minnows.†
p. 190.5veritable = used for emphasis to introduce a dramatic metaphor
- He was a veritable existential identity crisis, a male stripper with more aliases than a covert CIA agent.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(veritable) used for emphasis: to describe one thing as almost like another (more intense) thing
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)