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Conversational

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How are you holding up?

Checks on emotional/physical state

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How have you been?

Asks about someone’s recent state

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What’s going on?

Asks about current events/situations

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What are you up to?

Asks about current activities

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What’s new?

Asks for updates in someone’s life

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How’s everything?

Broad inquiry about life/work

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How’s life?

Casual check-in on life overall

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What have you been up to?

Asking about recent activities

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How are things?

Casual life update request

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If you look at…

Directs attention to a specific example.

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Let’s say…

Introduces a hypothetical scenario.

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In that

Specific qualification

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Considering

Taking into account

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Seeing

Considering the fact

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Now that

Temporal/causal link

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Whereas

Contrasting reason

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Since

Temporal/causal link

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Over

Due to (emotional cause)

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In as much as

To the extent that

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By virtue of

Due to inherent quality

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Through

Via means of

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Being

Due to the state of

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For the reason that

Explicit justification

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In the interest of

For the benefit of

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