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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
We knew because Clarke said a few weeks ago that the squad was more or less set in his head already.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
The answer, more or less, is to continue what he’s been doing all along.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
They had more or less run amuck and were damming up rivers and flooding highways, filling pastures, even beginning to invade the cities.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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