or not exactly
Example Sentences
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Beattie does not mean to judge, or not exactly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2023
That doesn’t make Villeneuve’s “Dune” a white-savior story or not exactly or maybe just not yet.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2021
I remember that I felt paralyzed, or not exactly that, though something like that.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 11, 2019
It doesn’t misrepresent the facts, or not exactly, but it shears them free of context to a large and damaging extent.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2015
There's the stage,—but it's not that, I fancy, or not exactly that.
From The Incomplete Amorist by E. (Edith) Nesbit
