more or less
adverb
1
: to a varying or undetermined extent or degree : somewhat
they were more or less willing to help
2
: with small variations : approximately
contains 16 acres more or less
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Examples of more or less in a Sentence
the lot is 16 acres more or less
most couples in the survey said that they were more or less happy in their marriage
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Oxygen, once a network backed by Geraldine Laybourne and Oprah Winfrey and created to appeal to female audiences, is more or less a cookie-cutter true-crime outlet in which rivals have a stronger perch.
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Brian Steinberg, Variety, 31 Oct. 2024
All New Atlas | Boston Dynamics Machine learning through computer vision and physical experimentation will eventually allow these humanoids to watch and learn more or less any manual task a human can perform.
—New Atlas, 30 Oct. 2024
The temperature is not an actual hot or cold kind of temperature and instead a metaphor of setting the AI toward being more or less deterministic.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
Between 2018 and 2022, New Delhi’s average PM2.5 concentration (a measure of pollutants in the air) for the month of November, when the pollution season typically begins, more or less stayed the same, according to IQAir.
—Noemi Cassanelli, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
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Brian Steinberg, Variety, 31 Oct. 2024
All New Atlas | Boston Dynamics Machine learning through computer vision and physical experimentation will eventually allow these humanoids to watch and learn more or less any manual task a human can perform.
—New Atlas, 30 Oct. 2024
The temperature is not an actual hot or cold kind of temperature and instead a metaphor of setting the AI toward being more or less deterministic.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
Between 2018 and 2022, New Delhi’s average PM2.5 concentration (a measure of pollutants in the air) for the month of November, when the pollution season typically begins, more or less stayed the same, according to IQAir.
—Noemi Cassanelli, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
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“More or less.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/more%20or%20less. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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