"let us see" meaning in English

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          "text": "“When are you going to move out and grow up?” these all-rightniks taunt, as if one action depended on the other. Maybe now's the time, I thought. Let us see. . . .",
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          "text": "Let us see—no NFL teams, and you are going to let the Kings and Lakers leave also. That is what is going to happen if you blow this deal! All we will be left with is...oh, yeah. Nothing!",
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          "text": "In his Feb. 4 op-ed blog excerpt, “Give ’em hell, Donald!,” Henry Olsen attempted to draw parallels between President Harry S. Truman and President Trump. Let us see. Truman coined the phrase “the buck stops here”; Mr. Trump accepts no blame — “It was a perfect call.”",
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          "text": "A new image reminds us of what the orbiting observatory has let us see.",
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