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Discover LudwigThe phrase "as they thought" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something was believed or assumed by a group of people.
Example: "The project was deemed successful, as they thought it would meet all the necessary criteria."
Alternatives: "as they believed" or "as they assumed".
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Conditions were not so favourable as they thought.
So it wasn't as strange as they thought".
"She had had a small heart attack as they thought".
They didn't disprove the drugs; they just weren't such wonder drugs as they thought.
Financiers who were not as clever as they thought they were?
"Her brace isn't helping as much as they thought it would," said her father, Rick Shumaker.
From the Palestinians' perspective, Barak did not come as far as they thought he should.
People will discover they were not as wealthy as they thought.
The scientists recorded the subjects' brain activity as they thought about these values.
"He said there wasn't as much damage as they thought there was.
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