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more or less
Approximately, as in The truck will hold nine yards of dirt, more or less . This usage was first recorded in 1589.
Basically, essentially, as in We more or less agree on the substance of the letter . This usage was first recorded about 1225.
Example Sentences
For a Northeastern more-or-less-moderate Republican, this courting of the right is a familiar path.
Here, now, are some achievable resolutions that will help you be sort of, basically, more-or-less decent in the year to come.
But why has his cause morphed to the more-or-less united Israeli front lobbying today for his freedom?
UPDATE BELOW: College kids are well known for doing more-or-less innocuous, dumb pranks.
Syria will become a more-or-less functioning democracy within the year.
Red Hoss forgot temporarily the more-or-less indefinite purpose which had brought him hither.
The women seemed to have erected a temporary tri-partite Entente-more-or-less-Cordiale.
It was not on its side but rather had sunk into the snow in more-or-less of an upright position.
Then armed, more-or-less-armored men ran back to the scene of their reveling.
Back home on Earth, they had all been more-or-less average men.
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