or so
idiom
—used to say that a number, amount, etc., is not exact
We plan to stay a week or so.
Tickets cost $20 or so.
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The Department of Labor issued several sets of regulations about IRA rollovers in the last 10 years or so.
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Bob Carlson, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
For the past seventy years or so, the university humanities have largely lost sight of this core truth.
—D. Graham Burnett, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2025
Further exploration of the site revealed a small terrace 30 or so yards from the stand, together with a block of waist-high turnstiles.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
Stargazers are familiar with half a dozen or so bright meteor showers that return with unerring regularity every year — April's Lyrids, August's Perseids, Decembers's Geminids and others.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 25 Apr. 2025
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Bob Carlson, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
For the past seventy years or so, the university humanities have largely lost sight of this core truth.
—D. Graham Burnett, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2025
Further exploration of the site revealed a small terrace 30 or so yards from the stand, together with a block of waist-high turnstiles.
—Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025
Stargazers are familiar with half a dozen or so bright meteor showers that return with unerring regularity every year — April's Lyrids, August's Perseids, Decembers's Geminids and others.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 25 Apr. 2025
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“Or so.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/or%20so. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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