more or less
Example Sentences
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But when Iater asked El-Sayed what he was thinking in that moment, he more or less demurred.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
One traffic and news pilot, Captain Max’s successor Jim Hicklin, was killed more or less in the line of duty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
But another explanation is that "the market sees it more or less as a shell game," O'Hare said of the policy.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
This is, more or less, my grandmother’s domestic mode.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
“By the end of the war, I was more or less known as a military cipher expert,” she wrote, “but I was better known as the wife of my husband.”
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
