speaking as

/spˈiːkɪŋ az/

/spˈiːkɪŋ æz/

[phrase]

speaking as

[PHRASE]

expressing one's opinions or point of view as someone who has had the same or similar experience

Examples

1. And, speaking as someone who moved from New Mexico to Montana in the winter, I can tell you that most organisms don’t cope well with abrupt changes in their habitats.

2. Part of why we’re so fascinated with extinct dinosaurs, I think, is that some of them were just so big, it’s just hard to imagine animals walking around on the surface of the planet that size Speaking as a mammal that’s about two meters tall, I gotta say it’s hard to grasp what it would be like, to be in the presence of a creature as tall as a five-story building.

3. But speaking as a physicist - and to be clear, this is purely my own personal speculation - I kind of wonder if Einstein also was kicking himself in the pants because if he hadn’t made that silly math error, maybe he could have arrived, years earlier, at the same equations as Friedmann (and which are now called the Friedmann equations, and are the foundation of our modern understanding of the large-scale structure of the universe).

4. The candidate built his brand off of speaking as he finds, which seems to strike a chord with the working class voters in his constituency.