more or less

I know that the film was going to go there even as I was writing the earlier sections, which are more or less faithful to the book.

These include Kurdish majority areas in the east, which have been more or less separate from Syrian state control since the early years of the conflict.

The adjacent, more jagged lakeshore cliffs generate weaker and less distinct echoes, while the more or less contemporary dwelling sites on the sandy shores of the same water bodies have no audible echoes at all.

Her voice wavered as she said more or less the same words that so many in her community, and others like it, have echoed over the past two months: “Nobody was prepared.”

With the series, they’re not out to disparage the genre but to more or less lament what franchises have become.