A use of AS
The use of As in the following sentence is like which, isn' it? For example, It turns out it's my mother, which is very weird because she never calls me.
“As happened almost everywhere in the Third World, Brazil’s generals, their cronies and the super-rich borrowed huge amounts of money and sent much of it abroad.
= Brazil’s generals, their cronies and the super-rich borrowed huge amounts of money and sent much of it abroad, which happened almost everywhere in the Third World.

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A use of AS
The use of As in the following sentence is like which, isn' it? For example, It turns out it's my mother, which is very weird because she never calls me.
“As happened almost everywhere in the Third World, Brazil’s generals, their cronies and the super-rich borrowed huge amounts of money and sent much of it abroad.
=>  Brazil’s generals, their cronies and the super-rich borrowed huge amounts of money and sent much of it abroad, which happened almost everywhere in the Third World.

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It means 'The same as'..

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the use of the word as is not like the word which in this case or at all really the word as would normally be used in comparisons to refer to the extent or degree of something or used to indicate that something happens during the time when something is taking place also used to indicate by comparison the way that something happens or is done used to refer to the function or character that someone or something has.during the time of being (the thing specified) here's an example: The bear was as big as a house.