more like
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: close to : about, approximately
I thought it would only take two or three minutes, but it ended up taking more like half an hour.
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Geese, Getting Killed If the 2010s were a decade in which the internet made American culture feel overlit and surveilled, the 2020s are more like an overgrown swamp, governed by murky forces and entanglements.
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
Story of My Village seems more like a homecoming than a documentary.
—Nia Bowers, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025
Even on a first listen, their music has the redolence of a childhood memory, more like something forgotten and remembered than like something wholly new.
—Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
However much Trump was personally involved in shaping these national-security documents, there’s little doubt that the 2025 version sounds a lot more like the man himself than the 2017 iteration.
—Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2025
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Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2025
Story of My Village seems more like a homecoming than a documentary.
—Nia Bowers, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025
Even on a first listen, their music has the redolence of a childhood memory, more like something forgotten and remembered than like something wholly new.
—Literary Hub, 11 Dec. 2025
However much Trump was personally involved in shaping these national-security documents, there’s little doubt that the 2025 version sounds a lot more like the man himself than the 2017 iteration.
—Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2025
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“More like.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/more%20like. Accessed 18 Dec. 2025.
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