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Example Sentences

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With the stroke of a pen, Beijing has created a statistical gap more or less equal to the total emissions of South Korea or Germany.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

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

They are all about $10 to $15 and involve pushing medicine into your baby’s mouth via a small hole in the paci, more or less completely removing the struggle.

From Slate • May 17, 2026

Brian had more or less arrowed the plane into the water—through the trees and down—and it was a miracle that he hadn’t been killed.

From "The River" by Gary Paulsen