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Example Sentences
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You are correct in most of your assumptions, more or less.
From MarketWatch • May 23, 2026
It's one thing when "you're not risking anybody's life" with spaceflight and "you're doing it on your own nickel, more or less," he said.
From Barron's • May 20, 2026
We knew because Clarke said a few weeks ago that the squad was more or less set in his head already.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
The answer, more or less, is to continue what he’s been doing all along.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
Neither variant was morally or biologically superior; each was just more or less adapted to a particular environment.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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