more or less
Example Sentences
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You can shift when you pay your taxes by adjusting your withholding, but you generally can’t reduce your overall tax bill simply by withholding more or less.
From MarketWatch • Jul. 8, 2026
Almost three weeks later, a fragile ceasefire more or less holds.
From BBC • Jul. 5, 2026
Summerween in “Gravity Falls” was more or less the same as regular Halloween — “a night to celebrate pure evil,” as Grunkle Stan puts it gleefully — with trick-or-treating, carved jack-o-watermelons, and a Summerween superstore.
From Salon • Jun. 30, 2026
Changes in mortgage rates can make a borrower more or less likely to refinance, altering the projected duration of the loan’s payouts to investors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 29, 2026
The details of a $45 million trade more or less agreed upon in February 2007 took several months to hammer out, and the trade didn’t go through until early May.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
