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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
The answer, more or less, is to continue what he’s been doing all along.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
"At more or less every youth engagement I've had over the last three years, this has never failed to come up," she said.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
Optics governed more or less everything in the political world, and I factored this into every outfit.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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