Such As Meaning

(idiomatic, formal) Those who.

Example:   Waterbirds, such as the duck or the gull, are common in the area.‎
2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […]”, The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:
  The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.
  I was never in a country such as that.‎
1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, The Celebrity:
  No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or […] . And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.
  Such as have already done their work may leave.‎

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