more or less
Approximately, as in The truck will hold nine yards of dirt, more or less. This usage was first recorded in 1589.
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How to use more or less in a sentence
For a Northeastern more-or-less-moderate Republican, this courting of the right is a familiar path.
Why Hillary Clinton Should Go a-Knocking on Ralph Reed’s Door | Jeff Greenfield | June 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHere, now, are some achievable resolutions that will help you be sort of, basically, more-or-less decent in the year to come.
But why has his cause morphed to the more-or-less united Israeli front lobbying today for his freedom?
UPDATE BELOW: College kids are well known for doing more-or-less innocuous, dumb pranks.
Michigan State University Student Has His Mouth Stapled in Vicious Campus Hate Crime | Elisheva Goldberg | August 29, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTSyria will become a more-or-less functioning democracy within the year.
Red Hoss forgot temporarily the more-or-less indefinite purpose which had brought him hither.
Sundry Accounts | Irvin S. CobbThe women seemed to have erected a temporary tri-partite Entente-more-or-less-Cordiale.
Murder in the Gunroom | Henry Beam PiperIt was not on its side but rather had sunk into the snow in more-or-less of an upright position.
Ecological Studies of the Timber Wolf in Northeastern Minnesota | L. David MechThen armed, more-or-less-armored men ran back to the scene of their reveling.
Triplanetary | Edward Elmer SmithBack home on Earth, they had all been more-or-less average men.
Asteroid of Fear | Raymond Zinke Gallun
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