"a mo' di" meaning in Italian

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Adverb

IPA: /a‿mˈmɔ di/
Etymology: Contraction of a modo di. Head templates: {{it-adv}} a mo' di
  1. like, as, by way of Synonyms: come
    Sense id: en-a_mo'_di-it-adv-7N0HLIj7 Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "english": "The depressed person's parents, for example, who had divorced when she was a child, had used her as a pawn in the sick games they played, as in when the depressed person had required orthodontics and each parent had claimed ─ not without some cause, the depressed person always inserted, given the medical-legal ambiguities of the divorce settlement ─ that the other should pay for it.",
          "ref": "2007, David Foster Wallace, “La persona depressa [The Depressed Person]”, in Ottavio Fatica, Giovanna Granato, transl., Brevi interviste con uomini schifosi [Brief Interviews with Hideous Men], Einaudi:",
          "text": "I genitori della persona depressa, ad esempio, che avevano divorziato quando lei era bambina, l'avevano usata a mo' di pedina nei loro giochi perversi, come quando la persona depressa aveva avuto bisogno di ortodonzia e ciascun genitore aveva dichiarato ─ non senza ragione, aggiungeva sempre la persona depressa, viste le ambiguità medico-legali degli accordi di divorzio ─ che doveva essere l'altro a pagarne le spese.",
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        [
          "way",
          "way"
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      ],
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        {
          "word": "come"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/a‿mˈmɔ di/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "a mo' di"
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          "ref": "2007, David Foster Wallace, “La persona depressa [The Depressed Person]”, in Ottavio Fatica, Giovanna Granato, transl., Brevi interviste con uomini schifosi [Brief Interviews with Hideous Men], Einaudi:",
          "text": "I genitori della persona depressa, ad esempio, che avevano divorziato quando lei era bambina, l'avevano usata a mo' di pedina nei loro giochi perversi, come quando la persona depressa aveva avuto bisogno di ortodonzia e ciascun genitore aveva dichiarato ─ non senza ragione, aggiungeva sempre la persona depressa, viste le ambiguità medico-legali degli accordi di divorzio ─ che doveva essere l'altro a pagarne le spese.",
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