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Second American drinking tea, for example (4,2)

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I believe the answer is:

such as

'for example' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'second american drinking tea' is the wordplay.
'second' becomes 's' (common abbreviation).
'american' becomes 'us'.
'drinking' is an insertion indicator.
'tea' becomes 'cha' (cha is a type of tea).
'us' enclosing 'cha' is 'uchas'.
's'+'uchas'='SUCH AS'

(Other definitions for such as that I've seen before include "Like" , "For example" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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