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

It was the presentiment, of a great misfortune; or not exactly a presentiment, but a fear caused by something I had noticed only the minute before.

From The Boy Tar by Read, Edward