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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Our Upper Suite feels more like a private apartment than a hotel room—spacious, light-filled, and impossibly calm.
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Feb. 2026
Its arching branches of flat, fleshy leaves are now drooping, leaving the plant looking less like a festive centerpiece and more like a soggy green mop.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Feb. 2026
Norton, his interest piqued, pays up to discover there is more like it at Ox Lake, 600 miles farther north in the open tundra known as the Barren Grounds.
—Malcolm Forbes, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2026
The show's Hot Topics segment feels more like a coffee clutch among close friends than a talk show tussle.
—Jay Stahl, USA Today, 21 Feb. 2026
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Feb. 2026
Its arching branches of flat, fleshy leaves are now drooping, leaving the plant looking less like a festive centerpiece and more like a soggy green mop.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Feb. 2026
Norton, his interest piqued, pays up to discover there is more like it at Ox Lake, 600 miles farther north in the open tundra known as the Barren Grounds.
—Malcolm Forbes, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2026
The show's Hot Topics segment feels more like a coffee clutch among close friends than a talk show tussle.
—Jay Stahl, USA Today, 21 Feb. 2026
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