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90 Transition Words and Phrases

To provide another point To draw an analogy or To emphasize or expand

comparison
And Indeed
Nor Here In fact
Also Likewise Even more
As well Similarly In effect
Besides By analogy By analogy
Further So too here Especially
Moreover As with X, Y Simply put
Along with By extension By extension
Furthermore Much like X, Y Particularly
In addition In like manner In particular
Additionally In the same way In other words
What is more Just as X, so Y Put another way
Another reason All the more reason
To X, Y adds Z To give an example All the more because
All the more X because Y
To conclude or explain Say
As in To draw a contrast
So Such as
Then Including Yet
Thus For example But
Hence For instance Not
And so For one thing Rather
Because First, second, third, etc. Unlike
And thus Despite
In short To preempt a counterargument However
At bottom Instead
Therefore Still Conversely
All in all Even if By contrast
Accordingly Even so In contrast
As a result Although Nonetheless
At its core Of course For all that
That is why That said Nevertheless
To that end To be sure
In any event All the same
Consequently Even assuming
In consequence At the same time
For that reason On the other hand
Though she has argued
Though some might argue

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